Charles Putnam Middleton III, 37, disappeared after taking off from Anchorage, Alaska, in a yellow Piper PA-12 equipped with floats on a late September day in 1984. He was on a recreational moose-spotting flight with Roy Pedersen; no flight plan had been filed. Middleton was described as a white male with brown hair and brown eyes, wearing Levi’s, a white t-shirt, a wool CPO jacket, and blue tennis shoes, and noted to have a four-inch scar on his forehead.

The initial report was filed September 27, 1984, and the Alaska State Troopers investigated. No wreckage or trace of the men has ever been found, and the case is officially classified as Lost/Injured Missing with the aircraft presumed to have crashed. The lack of a filed flight plan left searches without a defined route, complicating efforts amid Alaska’s vast and difficult terrain.

Anyone who knew Charles Middleton, Roy Pedersen, or who may have information about that flight is asked to come forward.