Professional Pilot, October 2016

David Thatcher crew member on WWII Doolittle Raid dies at 95 David Thatcher 1 of the last 2 surviving crew members of the WWII Doolittle Jan Barden started API and placed pilots in corporate aircraft cockpits 2016 Statement of Ownership Management 64 PROFESSIONAL PILOT October 2016 For 45 years Janice Barden found tested and placed in service qualified pilots who today serve as chief pilots and aviation dept mgrs for a great number of business flight departments As a professional psychologist she started Aviation Personnel Intl in 1971 in New Orleans with a view towards not only checking applicant type ratings and flight hours but also giving the candidates psychological testing to make sure they would fit in with the companies looking for pilots to be in their flight services Her involvement in psychological testing predates API and goes back more than 60 years As her API pilot placement service grew she enlisted her husband Hal into the company and eventually passed the leadership of the firm to her daughter Sheryl Barden now APIs president and CEO in San Francisco Jan was named as a Star Performer by Professional Pilot magazine recognized by the 2015 NBAA Leadership Conference as an Aviation Industry Game Changer named by the Natl Aeronautical Assn as a Wesley McDonald Distinguished Aviation Statesman was recipient of the NBAA Jack Doswell Award for achievements in support of business aviation and was appointed by Pres George H W Bush to a Presidential Blue Ribbon Panel to address the problem of pilot and technician shortages in aviation Long after Hal Barden passed Jan married Chuck McKinnon founder of the IBM flight dept and an editorial contributor to Pro Pilot We will all miss Jan Barden and Circulation as required by US Postal Service Professional Pilot magazine No 01916238 General info Filing date September 22 2016 Professional Pilot is a monthly magazine 12 issues per year 50 per year when sold Mailing address 5290 Shawnee Road Suite 201 Alexandria VA 22312 Publisher Murray Q Smith Owner Queensmith Communications Corp at same address Murray Q Smith is sole stockholder There are no bondholders mortgagees or other security holders Actual Average copies copies per nearest Circulation issue file date 22732 23480 17081 17725 0 0 4087 4386 0 0 21168 22111 865 706 0 0 65 64 350 260 1280 1030 22448 23141 284 339 22732 23480 95 95 Total copies net press run Paid and or requested circulation 1 Outside county mail subscriptions stated on form 3541 2 In county subscriptions 3 Other non USPS distribution 4 Other classes mailed USPS Total paid and or requested circulation Free distribution by mail samples complimentary and other free 1 Outside county as stated on form 3541 2 In county as stated on form 3541 3 Other classes mailed USPS 4 Free distribution outside the mail carriers or other means Total free distribution Total distribution Copies not distributed Total Percent paid and or requested circulation Certified correct and complete September 22 2016 by Anthony Herrera General Manager Raid and a recent inductee to the Living Legends of Aviation died on June 22 in Missoula MT a few weeks short of his 95th birthday The Doolittle Raid named for its leader then Lt Col James Jimmy Doolittle was an attack on Japan on Apr 18 1942 by a fleet of 16 B25 Mitchell bombers launched from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet With the exception of Doolittle and a couple of key officers Thatcher and the other men who participated in the raid had no idea what they were getting into They volunteered for a secret mission which they were told would be highly dangerous and take them out of the country for a few months Thatcher was the engineer gunner aboard a B25 named The Ruptured Duck Ted Lawson the pilot of that airplane wrote the book Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo an autobiographical account of the raid and the role played by his crew and their airplane Lawsons book and the subsequent Hollywood movie based on it combined to make Thatcher 1 of the best known of the 80 Doolittle raiders After takeoff Lawsons airplane went on to bomb Tokyo successfully and continued on to China in deteriorating weather that made finding a landing field impossible Lawson landed on a beach he spotted through the overcast but the landing went badly All crew members except Thatcher were severely injured in the ensuing crash He helped Lawson and other crew members of The Ruptured Duck reach safety After this Thatcher was stationed in England and later in Africa before receiving a stateside assignment in California in early 1944 David Thatcher won a Silver Star for his actions following the crash After the raid in addition to the Silver Star he was awarded Distinguished Flying Cross the Air Medal with 4 Oak Leaf Clusters and the Chinese Army Navy and Air Corps Medal Class A 1st Grade during his military career On 18 April 1942 airmen of the US Army Air Corps carried the Battle of the Pacific to the heart of the Japanese empire with a raid on military targets in Tokyo Yokohama Yokosuka Nagoya and Kobe This was the result of coordination between the Army Air Corps and the US Navy which carried the 16 North American B25 bombers aboard the USS Hornet to within striking range of the Japanese Islands Here a pair of alert escorts follow the USS Hornet to protect her cargo Photo courtesy of USAF David Thatcher Jan Barden Jan Sheryl Barden