Colorado pilot honored with permanent exhibit at Wings Over the Rockies Museum decades after plane crash

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Colorado pilot honored with permanent exhibit at Wings Over the Rockies Museum decades after plane crash
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DENVER — Sixty-five years after a deadly plane crash, a Colorado family reconnected with their father's memory after they were presented with a piece of his plane found lodged into the ground of a Nebraska field.

Bill Knobbe, the first-born son of pilot William Hodgson, was only 6 years old at the time of his father's deadly crash. Hodgson, who had flown in World War II and the Korean War, was flying a mission for the Colorado Air National Guard from Buckley Airfield to upstate New York in 1958 when he encountered issues with his plane and lost control.

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