James T. Terry Field disappeared during a business flight over Lake Erie on August 26, 1986, while returning to Canada from Ohio. An experienced pilot and founder of Brant Aero in Brantford, Ontario, he had been making a routine parts pickup in the Cleveland area when the company’s Cessna 210 encountered a rapidly developing thunderstorm and never reached its destination. Reports identify him as a man who built an aircraft maintenance and avionics business; his father James H. Field and brothers Sinclair Bud Field and Patrick Field later joined the company, and his son Blaine Field also worked there.

Brant Aero’s history states that Terry entered the storm and was lost over Lake Erie. The disappearance is presented as a catastrophic aviation accident rather than a voluntary absence, and his name is preserved in the Centralia/James T. Field Memorial Aerodrome. Does anyone have memories of the flight, the company in the 1980s, or information that could shed more light on what happened that day?