- Date
- 1983-06-27
- Kind
- Rescue
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- aviationpublic-servicecommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
On June 27, 1983, the Sheriff’s Office searched Beaver Island for an overdue aircraft after a pilot reported being at an unattended island airport. The aircraft was eventually found on Bois Blanc Island near Mackinac.
Evidence limits
The account is a newspaper anecdote and does not provide a dispatch log, flight-service record, or formal search report.
Sources
- Reports that Deputy Ham searched Beaver Island on June 27 for an overdue aircraft after the pilot reported being at an unattended Beaver Island airport; the aircraft was later located on Bois Blanc near Mackinac, so the pilot had the wrong island. It is a newspaper public-service anecdote, not an aviation incident report, search log, or flight-service record. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1983-08_Beaver-Beacon
- The held eleven-page August issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the reported search and resolution.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1983-08_Beaver-Beacon
Added 4 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Sheriff’s search finds overdue aircraft on Bois Blanc Island, 1983”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-missing-airplane-wrong-island-1983/, accessed [date], citing “Missing Airplane,” Deputy's Office, Beaver Beacon, August 1983. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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