Concord Township was the site of the crash of Trans World Airlines Flight 553, a Douglas DC-9-15 which fell to earth in a field following a mid-air collision with a Beechcraft Baron on March 9, 1967, triggering substantial changes in air traffic control procedures.
Carried out by a disgruntled former employee of Connellan Airways (Connair), who flew a Beechcraft Baron into the Connair complex at the airport, the attack killed four other people and injured four more, two of them seriously.
On 27 November 1984, a Beechcraft Baron 58, registration VH-ETV, operating a charter flight to the airport, suffered a left landing gear failure and was substantially damaged.
Baron | William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley | baron | Sacha Baron Cohen | Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister | Joey Baron | Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell | Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux | Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester | William Wallace, Baron Wallace of Saltaire | William Tyssen-Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst of Hackney | James Mackay, Baron Mackay of Clashfern | Hercules Robinson, 1st Baron Rosmead | George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney | Beechcraft Baron | Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley | Thomas Denman, 1st Baron Denman | Stuart Rendel, 1st Baron Rendel | Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank | John Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara | Charles Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington | Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore | Benedict Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore | Beechcraft 1900 | Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza | William Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby | Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild | Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea | Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala | Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington |
Grüntzig, an instrument-rated pilot, and his wife died in an airplane crash in their Beechcraft Baron in Forsyth, Georgia on October 27, 1985.
Under Macair, SOLAIR became the smallest international airline in the world, serving the island of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, with a total of two Doves and two Beech Barons.