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Long-time Corporate Pilot Chauncey Webb Flies West
Webb, who died July 21, flew for five decades
Chauncey Webb at EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin
While a career pilot, Webb had an affinity for general aviation, flying a multitude of aircraft from Piper Cubs to the gamut of Cessna single-engine models, in addition to floatplanes, warbirds, Stearmans, and Wacos.

Chauncey Frank Webb, 76, a long-time corporate pilot and former naval aviator, died July 21. Webb had a career spanning more than five decades flying helicopters and, ultimately, airplanes for the U.S. Navy and later corporate flight departments and aircraft owners.

Born Oct. 22, 1946, in Bay City, Texas, Webb grew up in a small town, spending summers fishing and on his uncle’s farm, winning a pony at the age of seven at a local movie theater drawing, according to obituary information from his family. But he became interested in aviation in his youth and would get scolded because he would become distracted and stare out his school windows to watch airplanes take off from a nearby airport.

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