Richard L. Johnson was 67 when he vanished in August 1992 while aboard a white Beechcraft V35A with red and blue trim, tail number N216JB. He was flying with Franklin Roth; their last radio contact placed the plane about 10 miles east of Gulkana in the Copper River Census Area. After that transmission the aircraft and both men disappeared.

An intensive 11-day search of the surrounding Alaskan wilderness turned up no wreckage or other evidence. The Alaska State Troopers have kept the case open, but there have been no publicly reported discoveries that explain what happened to the airplane or its occupants.

If anyone was in the Gulkana area in August 1992 or has information about small aircraft movements, wreckage, or sightings from that time, please share what you know with investigators or in this thread.