Carl B. Squier

Carl B. Squier (17 April, 1893 – 5 November, 1967) was a World War I aviation pioneer and vice president of Lockheed Corporation. He sold Charles Lindbergh his Sirius airplane in 1931. He was the 13th licensed pilot in the United States.

Biography

Carl was born in Michigan. On Monday, May 16, 1938 at 2:07 p.m. a new Lockheed Model 14 Super Electra was carrying Northwest Airlines and Lockheed Corporation employees and family members . The aircraft took off from Burbank Airport for Las Vegas, Nevada, where the aircraft was to be formally turned over to Northwest Airlines, and then it was to be flown to St. Paul, Minnesota to the airline's headquarters. The plane was flying in fog above the Mint Canyon when it crashed at 3,300 feet in the Sierra Pelona Mountains, 27 minutes after taking off from Burbank. All seven passengers on board, including a three-year-old boy and an infant girl, were killed instantly. Among the victims were Frederick Whittemore, 42, a pilot and vice-president of operations at Northwest Airlines, and Lenna Squier, 34, Carl B. Squier's wife, the vice-president in charge of sales at the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. Squiers was in Chicago when his wife was killed. Carl died on Los Angeles in 1967. He was buried in the Portal of Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation.

References

*Los Angeles Times; November 6, 1967; Ex-Lockheed Executive Carl B. Squier, 74, Dies. Was Credited With Saving Aircraft Firm From Fiscal Disaster During Depression. Carl B. Squier, retired vice president and director of Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, who was credited with saving the company from financial disaster in the depression, died Sunday. He was 74.

External links

* [http://eugenedownes.tripod.com/days_of_glory_and_early_aviation/id7.html Eugene Downs: Squier]
* [http://members.aol.com/jaydeebee1/crash30s.html Details of the crash that killed the wife of Carl Squier]