IN MEMORY OF:

GUILLERMO M. SCHWARZ, KP3S, SK Special Event

1951 - 2000

R.I.P.

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Former Puerto Rico Section Manager Dies in Flying Mishap

    ARRL HQ, NEWINGTON, CT, Jul 31, 2000

   Former ARRL Puerto Rico Section Manager Guillermo M. Schwarz, KP3S, and his wife, Hildelisa, died July 29, 2000 after Schwarz's experimental aircraft crashed in Ohio.

Guillermo Schwarz and his wife, Hilda, at the 1998 Puerto Rico Amateur Radio League Convention.

    An Associated Press report indicated that the small plane went down in a field Saturday afternoon in rural Wayne County, not far from Wooster, Ohio. The mishap is said to have occurred as the plane was attempting a final landing approach at Wayne County Airport. According to the AP account, authorities said the couple was removed from the wreckage and died after being taken to separate hospitals in Wooster and Akron.

    The aircraft was a 1998 Zenair Zodiac single-engine, two-seat kit plane. The AP report quoted police as saying the plane might have banked too sharply before making its final approach and went down.

    Schwarz, 49, was Puerto Rico's Section Manager from October 1994 until September 1998 and had been serving as a Southeastern Division Assistant Director since 1996. He was an ARRL member.

    The couple, who lived in Guayanabo, Puerto Rico, had flown to the mainland on vacation. At the time of the mishap, the Schwarzes were said to be en route from New York to Oshkosh, Wisconsin, where a major air show continues through August 1.

The experimental aircraft Schwarz was flying.

        Puerto Rico SM Victor Madera, KP4PQ, called Guillermo Schwarz "an excellent ham, a good friend." He said that Schwarz, who had piloted B-52s in the US Air Force, had only completed building the aircraft a few weeks earlier.

Survivors include the couple’s four children, Guillermo, Jose, Laura and Carlos, and Guillermo Schwarz’ father, William Schwarz, KP4EEB. Services were August 2, 2000 in Santurce, Puerto Rico.