More detail on this person: PATRICK J. SULLIVAN, TEST PILOT FOR BOEING PATRICK J. SULLIVAN, TEST PILOT FOR BOEING Buffalo News, The (NY) - Thursday, July 23, 1992 Services are being arranged for Patrick John Sullivan, a native of Lewiston, who was killed Monday (July 20, 1992) in the crash of an experimental aircraft at Quantico, Va. Sullivan, 43, of Media, Pa., and formerly of Garlow Road in Colonial Village, was a test pilot for Boeing Aircraft's Flight Test Center. He died when the V-22 Osprey, a tilt-rotor, airplane-helicopter hybrid, plunged into the Potomac River while attempting to land at the Quantico Marine Air Station. All seven people aboard were killed. A 1967 graduate of Niagara-Wheatfield High School, Sullivan was offered an appointment to the Air Force Academy. Instead, he accepted a scholarship and attended Columbia University. He left the university during the Vietnam War to join the Army and graduated from helicopter flight-training school. He completed two tours of duty in Vietnam, where he flew transport missions. Sullivan later attended the Navy's test-pilot school in Maryland and worked during the mid-1980s at Edwards Air Force Base in California. He retired from the Army in 1989 as a chief warrant officer and became a test pilot at Boeing, where he was the principal pilot for the V-22 program. Survivors include a daughter, Jessica; a son, John; his parents, Henry J. and Mary of Colonial Village; three brothers, Ronald of Grand Island and Tim and Tom, both of Niagara Falls, and a sister, Diane Curry of Niagara Falls. Sullivan and his fiancee, Sandy Knott of Media, Pa., were planning to be married next week.(Baldwin)
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