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I am trying to locate information on the crash of a B-25, N9091Z, that took place in Guatemala in September 1960. The tail number was also reported incorrectly on one document as N71606. My friend Clyde Benton Hughes, AKA Pat was flying and killed in the crash. Pat was, we suspect, involved in helping the anti-Castro forces at the time of his crash. He also owned a 1935 WACO YKC-S, N15236, that was abandoned in Tapachula, Mexico at the time of his death. Pat has two other partners, names unknown, that were killed with him in the crash. He had a mechanic named "Stan" working for him also. He was known to travel to Mexico, Nicaragua, Honduras, British Honduras, as well as Guatemala, on a regular basis. Both of Pat's airplanes had a large Pelican painted on the vertical stabilizer. Pat was over 6' tall with long red or blond hair. He was 37 at the time of his death. He left a 4 year old daughter when he died. The plane was originally purchased from the AF by American Compressed steel in 1959. Then purchased for $1 by ORBEC Corp. The only name I can associate with ORBEC was a lawyer in Ohio. I contacted him and he gave a great "Sgt. Schultz" imitation, "I know nothing"!!! I have pictures of Pat and both of his airplanes in Central America.

Any help with the names of his partners or circumstances of his crash would be greatly appreciated.

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B-25 N9091Z, WACO N15236 Somewhere in Central America Summer of 1960