James Edward Lewis, 42, left his Fayetteville, North Carolina home on October 3, 1982, saying he was driving his white Ford Fiesta to Vero Beach, Florida, for a job interview ferrying Piper airplanes. A recently retired U.S. Army Major, Lewis was a Ranger, a founding member of the Golden Knights parachute team, and a Vietnam veteran. He routinely phoned his wife while traveling, but did not make any of his usual calls after he drove away.

In January 1983 the family was told by a parking lot attendant that Lewis’s white Ford Fiesta had been sitting in the long-term lot at Fayetteville Municipal Airport since October 6, 1982. The family reported the car to Fayetteville police, but the vehicle was repossessed by the finance company before investigators could search it. In 1992 the family followed up on reported remains found in a neighboring county; those remains were identified as someone else, and the family later had Lewis declared legally dead. His remains have never been found and the circumstances of his disappearance remain unresolved.

Are there readers who remember seeing a white Ford Fiesta at Fayetteville Municipal Airport in October 1982 or who have any information about Lewis’s movements around that time?