page_title: Oscar Westover
section_title: Death
hierarchical_section_title: Oscar Westover / Early life and career / Death
caption_attribution_description: English: Northrop A-17A s/n 36-0207 at the National Museum of the United States Air Force
context_page_description: Oscar M. Westover was a major general and fourth chief of the United States Army Air Corps.
context_section_description: Westover died, aged 55, in a plane crash on September 21, 1938. The Northrop A-17AS he flew, a single-engined attack aircraft used as a high-speed staff transport, had a reputation for stalling, and only a year before Colonel William McChord had been killed in the crash of one. Westover's aircraft, AC serial 36-349, experienced a high-speed stall and crashed in a crosswind short of the runway at Lockheed Aircraft's air field in Burbank, California, now known as Bob Hope Airport. The plane crashed in the front yard of a house at 1007 Scott Road in Burbank. No one on the ground was killed, but two homes were damaged by the ensuing flames. His passenger, crew chief S/Sgt Samuel Hymes, also died.
  Westover was succeeded by the Assistant Chief of Air Corps, Brigadier General Henry H. Arnold on September 29.
  Oscar Westover is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Westover Joint Air Reserve Base in Chicopee, Massachusetts, formerly Westover Air Force Base and the headquarters of the Eighth Air Force, and now the largest reserve base in the Air Force as home to the 439th Airlift Wing, is named in his honor.
caption: Northrop A-17A
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