What type of plane was Buddy Holly in when he died?
It was a single engine Beechcraft Bonanza B35 (V-tail), registration N3794N. You can read the original aircraft accident report here: http://www.ntsb.gov/Publictn/1959/CAB_2-3-1959.pdf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Music_Died On February 3, 1959, a small-plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, United States killed three American rock and roll musicians: Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson, as well as the pilot, Roger Peterson [1]. The day was later called The Day the Music Died by Don McLean in his 1971 song “American Pie”. Events leading to the crash “The Winter Dance Party” was a tour that was set to cover 24 Midwestern cities in three weeks. A logistical problem with the tour was the amount of travel, as the distance between venues was not a priority when scheduling each performance. For
