JOHN JAMES BYRNE (1917 WI - 1977 HI)
And sometimes it's "JJ" or "Jim"
Sometime in the 1950's he started using James John Byrne

(Pilot)
(CNAC 194? - 1949)
(Captain - ???)

Page Started - about 2002
Page Updated - 9-5-2021
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Background music to this
page can be controlled here.
"Waikiki", piano only
<bgsound src="waikiki_01.mp3" loop=infinite>
This beautiful song was written by Andy Cummings (1913-1995)
while he was away from the Islands on a cold,
foggy nite while on tour in Lansing, Michigan in 1938.


Antigo High School 1935
Antigo, Langlade, Wisconsin

October 29, 2020

Jim's daughter, Peggy, tells me that her father also worked for:
Overseas National Airways Inc. (ONA)
Shell
TIA
and
World Airways

From the 1960-1962 CNAC Mailing List:
Byrne, J.J. p (p = pilot)
4620 Fairbaurn
Oakland, cal


From the 2/18/64 CNAC Mailing List:
J.J. Byrne
1914 University Ave.
Honolulu 22, Hawaii


From the 1965 CNAC Mailing List:
Byrne, JJ Jim
American International Oakland


From the 2/1/65 CNAC Mailing List:
J.J. Byrne
1914 University Ave.
Honolulu, 22, Hawaii


When he died in 1977, he lived at:
2535 Pacific Heights Road, Honoolulu, HI 96813

On August 25, 1977 an Air Cargo Hawaii twin-turboprop Short SC.7 Skyvan crashed and burned while attempting to land at Keahole Airport. The pilot and passenger were killed. The crash occurred about 1.5 mi (2.4 km) short of the runway.






This is Punchbowl - Overlooking Honolulu, Hawaii


My uncle, Emil Scott, is also buried at this cemetery


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