Charles Clifford Ogle


Charles Clifford Ogle was a businessman and developer in San Francisco and Oakland, California, at the time of his disappearance. He had worked as a loftsman for the Tampa Shipbuilding Company in Tampa, Florida, before joining the U.S. Navy in 1943 during World War II where he received flight training in the CAA-WTS. 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 Sacramento until 1950 when he joined the United States Marine Corps at the beginning of the Korean War. Later becoming acting First Sergeant, Headquarters Battery 2nd Battalion, 11th Marines while serving in South and Central Korea. On separation from the Marine Corps he settled in the San Francisco Bay Area where he was a developer and builder from 1954 till his disappearance in 1964.

Disappearance

At 6 pm on August 12, 1964, Charles Ogle took off from Oakland International Airport in his Cessna 210A tail number N9492X. He did not file a flight plan and he 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 Reno, Nevada. A private investigator hired by his father later reported his actual destination was Las Vegas, Nevada.
In 2007 with the disappearance of Steve Fossett and during the subsequent search approximately eight unidentified plane wrecks were discovered. It was speculated that one of these aircraft could be the Cessna 210A that Charles Ogle was flying, or one of several other aircraft that have disappeared flying over the Sierra Nevada. Only one aircraft was partially identified. With the rest there has been no follow up by the civil authorities. The fate of Charles Ogle remains a mystery.