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Author: JSheridan72
Surnames: Haffner
Classification: queries
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I was out hiking in a remote area the mountains south of Palm Springs, CA a couple of
years back and came across an old plane wreck that I later found out was an old Douglas
AD-5N Skyraider that crashed on March 22, 1956. Research on it has been slow-going, but I
found out it was piloted by LTJG Richard Hansen Haffner from Merkle, Indiana. A friend of
mine just made the trip up there and took some really good photos and posted them on his
website
http://www.aircraftarchaeology.com/AD-5N Skyraider Crash.htm
The squadron Lt. Haffner belonged to, VC-35 is planning on writing an article on it in
their January newsletter.
His father's name was Jesse Haffner, and he had a brother named James. I've got
some more info, but I wanted to see if anyone might be a relative. If so, I know the
squad would really appreciate any additional info.
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