On October 31, 1983, 46-year-old Dewey Eugene Bailey boarded a Cessna 206, tail number N9975, for a routine flight from Nondalton to Kenai and never arrived. Also on the plane were Sheila Cella, John Cushman, and Hunter Wells. No wreckage, distress call, or communication was ever found, and search efforts failed to locate the aircraft or its occupants.

The Alaska State Troopers investigated, but Alaska’s vast terrain and unpredictable weather left a massive search area and no definitive leads. The official record notes Bailey was wearing a gold nugget watch band and a gold wedding ring with a prominent diamond when he disappeared.

The case remains open and unsolved, a vanishing that has left four families without closure. Does anyone have information about that flight, sightings from the Nondalton–Kenai route in late October 1983, or memories of the passengers?