Scott D. Anderson

Quick Facts

Full Name	Scott D. Anderson
Occupation	Pilot
Date Of Birth	May 2, 1965(1965-05-02)
Age	59
Date Of Death	March 23, 1999, Duluth, MN
Birthplace	Boston
Country	United States
Birth City	Massachusetts
Horoscope	Taurus

Scott D. Anderson Biography

Scott D. Anderson is one of the most popular and richest Pilot who was born on May 2, 1965 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

In 1987, the summer after graduating college, he and his friend Steve Baker planned a marathon canoe trip from Duluth to York Factory on the Hudson Bay. After completing the 1,700-mile-long exploit, Anderson wrote his first book, Distant Fires, published in 1990, an autobiographical adventure story based on his experiences during the journey. Distant Fires was widely received by the local community at the time of its release—the Duluth News Tribune describing it as a marvelous “voyage of discovery”—and went on to win the American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults Award in 1991.

Anderson was known to have been a talented saxophonist, playing for multiple jazz bands around Duluth in the late ’80s and early ’90s. He then moved from the United States to Salzburg, Austria to play professional American football, before returning to become a pilot flying F-16s for the Air National Guard and flight instructing with Duluth’s 179th Fighter Squadron. His second publication, and first novel, Unknown Rider (1995), was a fictional manifestation of his experience achieving the title “Fighter Pilot”. He summed up his writing process saying, “When I was training to fly the F-16 at Kingsley Field in Oregon, each evening, after a day of flying fighters, I sat down and typed a little bit of this book… All I had to do was invent a few characters, put them in an airplane, and make them the heroes of the stories that filled the air.”

Scott D. Anderson Net Worth

Scott D. Anderson is one of the richest Pilot from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Scott D. Anderson 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Major Scott Douglas Anderson (May 2, 1965 – March 23, 1999) was a late 20th- century American polymath: Air National Guard F-16 pilot, general aviation test pilot, flight instructor, flight operations officer, engineer, inventor, musician, football player, outdoor adventurer, and award-winning author. In 1998, he completed the flight-testing of the first certified whole-plane parachute recovery system, which is credited with saving over 150 lives as standard equipment on Cirrus Aircraft’s line of single-engine light aircraft.

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The following year, on 23 March 1999, Anderson died while putting the first production SR20 through experimental test flights before it went on sale. The purpose of the flight was to perform routine torture-test maneuvers and assess changes to the aileron if there were any issues. The incident occurred after the plane’s aileron had jammed. Anderson was about 4 nautical miles out from the Duluth International Airport at the start of the flight when he radioed the control tower that he was returning due to a problem. At about 1.5 nautical miles from the airport, he declared an emergency. Less than 400 meters out, Anderson crashed into a vacant exercise yard on the federal prison grounds located off the airport’s south side. He died later that day in the hospital at age 33. The plane Anderson was flying had not yet been equipped with the standard CAPS that would come on every aircraft. Due to Cirrus being in very early production phase, the company was 10 days away from receiving production model chute systems at the time of Anderson’s death. Cirrus has never test-flown an aircraft without a parachute since.

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Scott Ranked on the list of most popular Pilot. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Scott D. Anderson celebrates birthday on May 2 of every year.

Anderson has been referenced multiple times in national articles and columns such as The Atlantic and The New York Times Magazine by journalist, author and former speechwriter for President Jimmy Carter, James Fallows. He has often been credited by Fallows as being a “Renaissance man” and “beloved, charismatic figure of Duluth”. Anderson was also a supporting theme in his 2001 book, Free Flight: Inventing the Future of Travel.