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CHAPTER CHATTER, EAA Chapter 78

At the annual air show at Doylestown Airport, In 1961, Sailer enlisted in the Navy, where he

Sailer would display his homemade RV-6A flew a submarine hunting aircraft. He then
aircraft, Ferguson said. He also became a commercial pilot for Trans World

volunteered with the chapter's Young Eagles Airlines, where he worked until his retirement.
Flights program, helping to train the next
generation of flyers to navigate the skies.

"He was a hell of a pilot, a first-class
gentleman," recalled Lino Flego, a pilot and
fellow EAA Chapter 78 member. "If you

needed anything, he was right there for you."

Todd Sailer described his father as a friendly,
outgoing and loving person who took countless

people with him on plane rides. From the time
his father was a teenager, he always wanted to
Marty Sailer was a commercial airline pilot for Trans World Airlines for
fly planes, he said. Growing up in Richboro, his several decades

father witnessed a plane landing, and from that
Todd believes that in his father's final moments
point on he made it his goal to navigate the
in the air, he went off course to avoid houses in
skies.
a final act of thinking of others.

"A lot of people told me they chose their
"He told me one time, 'In an emergency, you
career path because of him," Sailer said. "He
look for anywhere you can put it down to
was always willing to mentor anyone."
avoid casualties on the ground,'" Sailer said.
"It's what he would have done, no doubt
about it."

Todd Sailer (left), with his father, Marty Sailer