Billy Powell, Allen Collins, Ronnie Van Zant (top), Artimus Pyle (center), Leon
Wilkeson (bottom), Steve Gaines and Gary Rossington

Lynyrd Skynyrd vocalist Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines, Cassie Gaines
Steve’s sister) and road manager Dean Kilpatrick were killed when their plane
crashed in Gillsburg, MS. The other four members of the band were seriously
injured but survived the crash.

"The Day On The Green" at the Oakland Coliseum Stadium, July 2, 1977,
three months before the plane crash.

Captain Mike Bannister, Chief Concorde Pilot for British Airways
Concorde fleet.

A storm damaged light plane at the Portland airport

The scoreboard at Gresham High School

Wind damaged sign atop a Salem theater

 
Damage in Eugene

In 1968 Troh’s Nest was built on the east side of Scouter’s Mountain and was the 
third and last of Henry Troh’s Portland area airports. His home, pictured in the  
in the foreground, was used to run a successful charter business from the 
airport until his untimely passing at 57 from a brain tumor in 1968.

The airport was re-classified as public in 1977 and is known as Troh’s Memorial
Air Park / Happy Valley Airport Happy Valley, OR.

As of 2012, Happy Valley Airport is no longer depicted on Sectional Charts, but
continues to be listed in the FAA Airport/Facility Directory data as an active private airfield with 3 aircraft based on the field (2 single-engine, and 1 helicopter). The site
of Happy Valley Airport is located east of the intersection of Southeast Vrandenburg Road & Southeast Airport Road,

Aerial view looking south at the former Troh house, hangar, and runway at Happy Valley, 2011.

Henry “Hank” Troh is the 2012 Oregon
Aviation Hall of Fame Inductee