An exploration team discovered the nearly intact remains of an Air Force Beechcraft C-45 on the floor of Lake Ontario, near Oswego, N.Y., the team announced on July 8. On Sept. 11, 1952, the twin-engined light transport suffered a single engine failure on a flight from Bedford, Mass., to the former Griffiss AFB, N.Y. After instructing the four others aboard to bail out, pilot Lt. Col. Charles Callahan set the aircraft’s autopilot on course away from populated areas and bailed out himself, according to discoverer Jim Kennard. Without its passengers and crew, the C-45 gained altitude instead and flew 65 miles before running out of fuel and plunging into Lake Ontario. The five passengers and crew aboard parachuted to safety. “We were amazed to see that the C-45 is almost totally intact,” said Kennard, who found the aircraft using side-scan sonar with his colleague Roger Pawlowski. “This probably explains why no debris could be found” by Air Force and Coast Guard searchers at the time, he added. (See also C-45 factsheet from the National Museum of the US Air Force.)
Pentagon Releases Cost of Living, BAH Rates for 2026
Dec. 30, 2025
The Pentagon will pay cost of living allowances to 127,000 service members in the continental U.S. in 2026, an increase of 66,000 members in 2025. Airmen and Guardians across the U.S. will also receive an average increase of 4.2 percent for their Basic Housing Allowance, compared to the 5.4 percent…
