Charles Clifford Ogle (January 21, 1923 – August 12, 1964?) was a businessman and developer in San Francisco and

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, California, at the time of his disappearance.

Career

He had worked as a loftsman for the

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, before joining the

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in 1943 during

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, where he received flight training in the CAA-WTS (Civil Aeronautics Administrative War Training Service). He also served on the USS ''John D. Ford''. At the end of the war he worked as a securities salesman for the First California Company in

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until 1950, when he joined the

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at the beginning of the

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. He rose to the rank of acting First Sergeant, Headquarters Battery 2nd Battalion, 11th Marines while serving in South and Central Korea. On discharge from the Marine Corps he settled in the

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, where he was a developer and builder from 1954 until his disappearance in 1964.

Disappearance

At 6 pm on August 12, 1964, Charles Ogle took off from

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in his

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A tail number N9492X. He did not file a flight plan and did not radio the tower on takeoff. He was never seen or heard from again. It was originally reported that his planned flight destination was

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. A private investigator hired by his father later reported his actual destination was

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. In 2007, during the massive search for a missing aircraft flown by wealthy adventurer

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, approximately eight unidentified plane wrecks were discovered. It was speculated that one of these aircraft could be the Cessna 210A that Charles Ogle had been flying, or one of several other aircraft that had disappeared over the

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. Though the remains of Fossett and his aircraft were identified in 2008, only one of the eight other wrecks was partially identified. No follow-up on the remaining seven was reported. The fate of Charles Ogle remains a mystery.

References

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Career

Disappearance

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