Mr. Stearman Crash Site - Midway, Utah - Plane Crash Sites on Waymarking.com

The Mr. Stearman plane crash on Jan. 16, 2003 located not far from here is a memorialized dedicated bench. Captain Edmund R “Ed” Strauchen Jr died at age 62 with his good friend Bob Koch on January 16, 2003 in Ed’s Russian-designed Yak-52 in Midway, Utah, near his beloved Park City ski resorts. The plane named "Mr. Stearman" was a restored aircraft that Ed and his wife Myra had spent 3 years working on.

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The beautiful designed dedicated bench is on the drive up to Memorial Hill in Midway Utah.

The bench reads:

IN LOVING MEMORY

LCRD EDMUND R. STRAUGHEN
LCDR ROBERT E. KOCH

JANUARY 16, 2003
CRASH SITE OVERLOOK

Web Address for Related Web Sites: [Web Link] Date of Crash: 01/16/2003 Aircraft Model: 1983 Russian YAK 52 Military or Civilian: Military Cause of Crash: Unknown - there is nothing in the articles that we have read for the cause of the crash. Tail Number: Not listed

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