Lieutenant Mark C. Hogue | New England Aviation History

Rockville, CT. – August 8, 1920

June 15, 2017

Rockville, Connecticut – August 8, 1920

Rockville is a village within the town of Vernon, Connecticut.

On August 8, 1920, U.S. Army Lieutenant Mark C. Hogue was giving an exhibition flight over Rockville with Councilman Fred C. Neff aboard as a passenger. As the plane was coming in to land it lost airspeed due to hitting a pocket of thin air and fell into a tree. Neither was injured.

Lieutenant Hogue was later killed on July 23, 1925, when the aircraft he was piloting crashed just after take off from Boston Airport. He’s buried in Forest View Cemetery, in Forest Grove, Oregon. See www.findagrave.com, memorial # 90760504.

Sources:

Hartford Courant, “Mark Hogue Has Narrow Escape”, August 9, 1920

New York Times, “Two Die In Boston Plane”, July 24, 1925

Boston, MA – July 23, 1925

January 19, 2016

Boston, Massachusetts – July 23, 1925

On July 23, 1925, a small plane carrying two men crashed just after take-off from East Boston Airport. Witnesses said the aircraft suddenly went into a nose dive and came down on the railroad tracks belonging to the Boston, Revere Beach, & Lynn Railroad.

The pilot, Mark C. Hogue, 29, was killed instantly. The passenger, George Burroughs, 50, died on the way to the hospital.

Hogue was a former WWI veteran, having served as a Lieutenant in the Army Air Service. After the war he flew for the U.S. Mail as an airmail pilot, before becoming a commercial pilot. He was also an aerial photographer, and had photographed many estates of the rich and famous on Long Island, New York.

Updated June 12, 2017

Lt. Hogue had survived an earlier plane crash in Vernon, Connecticut on August 8, 1920.

Sources:

New York Times, “Two Die In Boston Plane”, July 24, 1925

The Daily Kennebec Journal, (Maine) “Air-pilot And Passenger Killed In Fall Near Boston”, July 24, 1925

Hartford Courant, “Mark Hogue Has Narrow Escape”, August 9, 1920