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Doctor Elmer Gaede. Elmer E. Gaede, M.D. was a simple Mennonite farm boy from Kansas who took a turn at the dairy barn and before he knew it, had graduated from KU medical school and was on his way up the Alcan Highway with his family.
May 11, 2021 · Author’s note: This is Part Three of a three-part story of an airplane crash more than a half-century ago. Dr. Elmer Gaede was at the controls of his single-engine Maule Rocket, with passengers Soldotna pharmacist Lee Bowman and Bowman’s friend Dane Parks, returning from Seward when the plane’s engine died, the aircraft crashed near the ...
May 11, 2021 · This is a four-place, single-engine Maule Rocket aircraft, owned by Soldotna’s Dr. Elmer Gaede, a day or two after it crashed into the brush and sparse trees near Forest Lane, between Soldotna and Sterling, on Aug. 2, 1967.
Nov 8, 2020 · About four hours earlier at the Soldotna airport, local physician, Dr. Elmer Gaede, fired up his blue-and-white Maule Rocket and prepared to take off for Seward, where he planned to attend the hospital staff meeting later that morning.
May 11, 2021 · About four hours earlier at the Soldotna airport, local physician, Dr. Elmer Gaede, fired up his blue-and-white Maule Rocket and prepared to take off for Seward, where he planned to attend the hospital staff meeting later that morning.
Dr. Elmer Gaede expected to follow in the footsteps of his Mennonite farming family. He never imagined that during the 1950s and 60s he’d fly with other legendary bush pilots, such as Babe Alsworth, Andy Anderson, Fred and John Chambers, Don Sheldon, Don Stickman, and Sig and Noel Wien.
Dec 9, 2023 · Dr. Elmer Gaede expected to follow in the footsteps of his Mennonite farming family. He never imagined that during the 1950s and 60s he’d fly with other legendary bush pilots, such as Babe Alsworth, Andy Anderson, Fred and John Chambers, Don Sheldon, Don Stickman, and Sig and Noel Wien.
