MIKE SMITH
1949 - 1970
PILOT
OKC ACF FTW GSW DAL	


You ex-CEN people may be interested to know that one of the most senior
CEN pilots, Captain Mike Smith (also known as "The Colonel") passed away 
about a week ago. He's been in a nursing facility at Hurst TX for quite 
some time suffering from Alzheimers disease. I think he was in his late 
80's or possibly early 90's. He retired a year or so after the CEN-FAL merger. 
-Jack Frost (11/24/98)

Mike's name was Charles Smith according to the Social Security Death Index.
He was born Feb 28, 1910 and died Nov 15, 1998.
Al Kendell sent me the article and photos of Mike 4/4/00.
They are from the Mar/Apr 1970 ARROWJET NEWS.
-Jake Lamkins
(4/21/00)

CHARLES M SMITH 	
Born 28 Feb 1910	
Died 15 Nov 1998
Age 88
At 76022 (Bedford, Tarrant, TX)	
SSN issued in Oklahoma
-SSDI
(2/2/06)

There is an article and pic about Mike in the Jul 1964 CN Skywriter.
It notes he was a colonel in the Air Force Reserve and had just completed a course at the Air War College.
-Jake Lamkins
(8/21/06)

I think I remember that my Dad, Lloyd Leach, and Jim Liddle and I think Mike Smith 
and one other pilot were the four Bonanza pilots originally based in OKC when CN started in 1949.
-Ronald Leach
(1/30/09)
(Per the 10/28/67 pilot seniority list, the first CN pilots were Gordon Bourland (8/2/49), 
WA Whitlock ((8/29/49), Owen Cook (9/24/49, Harry Logsdon (9/17/49), Leonard Pratt (9/24/49), 
Lloyd Leach (10/8/49), Mike Smith (10/8/49), Jim Liddle (10/19/49.  
I don't have any older CN seniority lists so there may have been other pilots in this group who had left by 1967.)

C M  SMITH
Pilot seniority date of 10/8/49 on the 10/28/67 FL/ALPA seniority list.
He retired after his last flight on Feb 27, 1970, the day before his 60th birthday.
-Jake Lamkins
(12/21/09)
 
OBITUARY
BEDFORD - Charles M. Smith, 88, a retired Air Force colonel and pilot, died Sunday, Nov. 15, 1998, in Hurst.
Funeral: 11 a.m. Thursday at Greenwood Funeral Home. Burial: Greenwood Memorial Park.
Col. Charles M. Smith was born Feb. 28, 1910, in Cordell, Okla. 
He was a member of 0X5 Aviation Pioneers, Order of the Daedalians, Order of Quiet Birdmen, 
National WWII Glider Pilots Association, ALPA and ASWA.
He was in the Air Force for 34 years and worked for 21 years in the air transport industry with Central and Frontier airlines.
Survivors: His wife of 52 years, born in Paris, France, Anne-Marie Smith of Bedford; 
daughter and son-in-law, Anne-Marie Noelle Keith and Lt. Col. Kevin Michael Keith of Del Rio; 
sister, Alice Marie Barnes of Tennessee; and grandson, Alexander Michael Keith of Del Rio.
Greenwood Funeral Home 3100 White Settlement Road, 336-0584
Fort Worth Star-Telegram on Nov 18, 1998
-Jake Lamkins
(12/21/09)