Stars and Stripes – Tributes pour in for Navy traveling legend Dale ‘Snort’ Snodgrass immediately after fatal crash at Idaho airport
Dale “Snort” Snodgrass was killed Saturday in the crash of a SIAI-Marchetti SM.1019 in Idaho. Snodgrass was a legendary F-14 pilot with more than 4,800 hours and 1,200 carrier landings in a Tomcat. A former Top Gun instructor, he was Fighter Pilot of the Year in 1985. After retiring from the Navy, he became a noted airshow performer.

Dale “Snort” Snodgrass was killed Saturday in the crash of a SIAI-Marchetti SM.1019 in Idaho. Snodgrass was a legendary F-14 pilot with a lot more than 4,800 hrs and 1,200 carrier landings in a Tomcat. A former Top rated Gun teacher, he was Fighter Pilot of the Year in 1985. Soon after retiring from the Navy, he turned a famous airshow performer. (U.S. Naval Institute Facebook)

LEWISTON, Idaho (Tribune Information Company) — Tributes commenced pouring in from about the globe Sunday for Capt. Dale “Snort” Snodgrass, the legendary U.S. Navy F-14 Tomcat pilot who died in a one-motor airplane crash Saturday at the Lewiston-Nez Perce County Regional Airport.&#13

Retired Navy Captain and previous NASA astronaut Scott Kelly known as Snodgrass a “accurate legend” in a Twitter post.&#13

“I experienced the satisfaction of recognizing him and even traveling with him in an F-14 with a new flight manage technique with me

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