Incident Name: A fire east of San Luis Obispo, near Pozo CA
Date: September 8, 1958
Personnel: 2 lives lost
Age:
Agency/Organization: US Forest Service
Position: aerial firefighters, pilots
Summary:
Arnel Talbot, pilot, age 28
Stuart Kolgour, copilot, age 38
Arnel J Talbot Jr., pilot, and Stuart A Kilgour, under contract with the US Forest Service, were killed on September 8, 1958 in a PBY air tanker crash near Pozo (east of San Luis Obispo) while flying to put out fire.
photo credits: J. Foster
Maps
Pozo, California
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Reports, Documentation, Lessons Learned
- Concise Information from the AAP, USFS and research by the WLF Staff.
- Date: September 8, 1958
- 2 killed: Arnell Talbot, pilot, and Stuart Kilgour, co-pilot
- Operator: unknown but under contract with the US Forest Service
- Type: PBY
- Location: east of San Luis Obispo CA (near Pozo)
- FAA Registration number is unknown.
- The NTSB online lookup Utility currentlyonly goes back to 1962.
- US Forest Service Heroes: Arnel James Talbot, Jr | Stuart Ashburn Kilgour
- California Death Index: Arnel James Talbot, Jr | Stuart A Kilgour
Wildlandfire.com Links:
Media Articles and Reports
Photos, Videos, & Tributes
- Arnel Talbot is buried at Sunnyside Memorial Park in Long Beach CA: Family Search Archive
Contributors to this article: photos of PBY: J. Foster, John Miller, Airtanker Pilots Memorial
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