BREAKING: de Havilland Venom Jet Warbird Down Near Sheboygan
Vintage Jet Crashed On Wisconsin Dairy Farm Killing Pilot and Injuring Two On the Ground
UPDATE: The de Havilland DH-112 Venom FB54 jet that crashed in Sheboygan Falls on July 20th 2018 was last registered as N747J. The jet’s serial number was J1747 (CN 917) and it was built in 1957. Previous registrations were G-BLIB and N5174V. Records indicate the aircraft was owned by the World Heritage Air Museum in Michigan. Their website indicates the aircraft served with the Swiss Air Force until 1983 before being brought to the United States in the 1990s. The pilot killed during the crash was 50 year old Marty Tibbits, who was the museum’s co-founder and executive director. He was taking off for a formation training flight when the crash occurred.
Witnesses discuss what they saw before the crash:
At this time Sheboygan County Memorial is hosting the annual Great Air Clinic. The Clinic takes place the week before the start of EAA Airventure at Wittman Field (KOSH) in Oshkosh- about 50 miles from Sheboygan. The Great Air Clinic puts on an airshow each day and trains pilots to fly in a large formation flight of North American T-28 Trojan warbirds at EAA AirVenture, which begins on Sunday July 22nd. The Trojan formation flight is one of the highlights of the Fly-In each year. This time of year the entire state experiences several times the aircraft movements normally seen any other time of the year- or anywhere else for that matter.
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