Remembering Clair Dunlap

Age 89, Washington
Passed away on March 31, 2020

Clair “Toby” Dunlap lived his dream and then some.

When he was 5, he took a $5 airplane ride out of Birch Bay, Whatcom County, and the young boy was hooked for life.

Dunlap bought his first plane at 16, was a pilot for 36 years for United Airlines and retired as a captain. He met a campaigning John F. Kennedy while copiloting the plane he was on and was still teaching people how to fly at 88. He did all that while helping raise four kids.

Dunlap died March 31 from complications of the coronavirus, having been diagnosed with the virus three days after daughter Kathy Aho, an ICU nurse at the University of Washington Medical Center, was diagnosed with it. Dunlap was 89.

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