This was Boeing's first passenger "airliner". It carried two passengers in the cabin and the pilot rode in the open cockpit at top. This one crashed near Canyonville in the 1930's, killing the single passenger and injuring the pilot. The passenger was a diamond merchant on his way to market and the stones began turning up in rings and jewelry around the area for years afterward.
Which just goes to show you that every airplane has its story. Our local airplane wreckage group plans to build a small marker this Monday, May 26 to B-24E tail number 42-7119 which crashed here on June 11, 1943. The site is next to Interstate 5 near Truck Village and the event is scheduled for 10 am. The public is welcome and if you'd like directions call me, Bruce Batchelder, at 938-0385.
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