Echoes Over the Susitna: The Unfound Flight of Gerald Dalrymple

Overview of a Vanishing Over Alaska

On July 25, 1984, 46-year-old Gerald Dalrymple disappeared after departing Anchorage, Alaska, on a chartered flight bound for the small community of Cantwell. Public missing-person records describe Dalrymple as a white male, about 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighing approximately 220 pounds, with brown hair and blue eyes. That July morning, he boarded a white Cessna 401B with green and gold trim, registered as N7984Q, for what should have been about an hour-long flight over the Alaska Range. The aircraft never arrived, no wreckage has been conclusively found, and Dalrymple remains listed as a missing person decades later.

Who Was Gerald Dalrymple?

Official case summaries give only a sparse but telling sketch of Dalrymple’s life at the time he vanished. He was 46 years old, categorized as white/Caucasian, and living and working within a professional environment that connected him to Newberry Alaska, a company involved in infrastructure work in the state. Former coworkers from Harrison Western, the parent company based in Denver, later recalled that both Dalrymple and his colleague Jack Dickey were assigned to that Denver office and were expected to return home after completing their Alaska inspection trip. Those colleagues remembered “Gerry and Jack” as friends and coworkers whose absence was deeply felt, emphasizing how suddenly their ordinary business travel turned into a permanent mystery....Read More

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