Abstract
On October 1, 1925, Charles Ames took off about 10:00 at night from Hadley Field in central New Jersey, bound for Cleveland. He was delivering mail as part of the county's first air mail program. He was scheduled to refuel at Bellefonte in central PEnnsylvania but never arrived. Withthe fog thick that night, no one saw him if he passed overhead, and perhaps he never saw the landing strip. But to the west, some farmers thought they saw a plane circling low and so on October 6, Aero Field near Clarion became headquarterse for the most highly publicized search effort to date for a missing Air Mail Service pilot. It would not end well.
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