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Today In SCV History: June 30, 1943 – Military Plane Crashes At Castaic Wayside Honor Rancho, Pilot Killed

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On June 30, 1943, a U.S. Army Air Corps fighter pilot was killed when his aircraft crashed at the Wayside Honor Rancho near Castaic. Army officials investigated the wreckage of a Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighter plane that went down on county property north of Newhall Pass. The pilot, Second Lt. Loncie L. Tucker, 28, was the sole occupant of the ...

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