This 'Flying Tiger Line' Budd Conestoga stainless steel transport plane (a war surplus Navy RB-1) crashed in snowy weather in November 1945 on San Rafael Mesa, 10 miles south of Grants.  *It was just a few hundred yards north of Airway Beacon 62.  

Donated and restored:  Site 62 power shed w/ Kohler 1.5 kW generator, and, electrical control panel with Sauter (Swiss) automatic time switch. 

Aircraft designer Benny Howard's DG-6A 'Mr. Mulligan' went down near Lake Valley, 20 miles north of Crownpoint, during the 1936 Bendix Air Race. Howard and his wife survived the crash, despite severe injuries and a long delay for help to reach the site.