Most people who have flown into Hollister Airport (CA) have probably seen
this plane - it has in a USAF Thunderbirds style paint scheme.

- Ray



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Dear, dear. From today's paper...

Two men in a Czechoslovakian fighter-trainer jet disappeared minutes after
taking off from Boeing Field yesterday, prompting rescue teams to scour
the
area between Seattle and their destination in Lewiston, Idaho.

A search for the single-engine L-39 registered to Rocky Stewart of
Hollister,
Calif., was launched by the aviation emergency services division of the
state
Department of Transportation.

That effort, based at Bowers Field in Ellensburg, was suspended at
nightfall,
spokeswoman Nisha Hanchinamani said.

The two men left Boeing Field shortly before noon, and by 11:58 a.m. had
radioed a Seattle air traffic controller to say they were experiencing
control
problems. The plane later disappeared from radar, said Tom Peterson, WSDOT
Aviation Emergency Services Coordinator.