Recovery of aircraft was not attempted. Wreck is believed to have been located by divers in the 1990s. In June 2009 my friends Kevin McGregor and Marc Millican flew with me to Shell Lake. We imaged the wreck on side-scan sonar and made several exploratory dives.

The airplane rests upside-down on the lake bed approximately 50 feet deep. The airframe is mostly intact. I shot 30 minutes of high-definition video footage documenting the wreck, and provided a copy of the footage to the Alaska Dept. of Natural Resources, Office of History and Archaeology.

Aftermath

casualty Details

Bound from Lake Hood to Shell Lake

Aircraft Particulars

Circumstances of Loss

Army air Force Beechcraft 1158

crashed in Shell lake, Southcentral Alaska