WALT WHITLOCK
1949 - 1971
PILOT, CHIEF PILOT, DIRECTOR-FLIGHT OPERATIONS
GSW DAL DEN


I was leafing through the Obituary page today and although I can't supply any specific date info, 
on many of the pilot's listed there is no info at all. 
My memory is far from perfect but I thought I'd pass along what I remember about some of these guys. 
Walt Whitlock: Walt was the Chief Pilot at CEN when I hired on. 
My previous job was at AAL in LGA where the carpet was deep, the walls were paneled and the chiefs all wore Brooks Bros. suits. 
I walked into the CEN dispatch office where this guy wearing blue denim wash pants, a white T-shirt and 
deck shoes was stretched out on a counter made of parts crates and swapping jokes with the dispatcher (Ross Conner). 
When I told them I was there to interview with the Chief Pilot, 
Walt put on a serious face and crawled off the counter and we went down the hall to his spartan office. 
He told me later that he hadn't been informed I was on my way over and I was only another guy off the street to him. 
After I left, he found out I was ex-AAL and they got me back the next day and hired me. 
Walt was a good pilot and I enjoyed working with him on the CV-240 after he went back on the line. 
Walt fought a extended battle with cancer but couldn't beat it.
-H.A. "Frosty" Frost
(11/26/99)

Date of death is 10/71 according to the FARPA Newsletter, August 2000.
-Jake Lamkins
(8/6/00)

WALTER WHITLOCK 
DOB 20 Jan 1917 
DOD Oct 1971 
Age 54
At 76135 (Fort Worth, Tarrant, TX) 
SSN issued in California 
-SSDI
(6/20/01)

Walt became CN's Director-Flight Operations in 1954, succeeding Owen Cook
per an article in the May Jun 1954 CN Skywriter.
Walt was 54 when he died of cancer in Oct 1971.
He married Jean Mehaffey who was CN chief stewardess at one time.
Jean died in a car crash in Oct 1975, age 40.
Their son Alexander was raised by Jean's brother.
-Jake Lamkins
(8/1/06)

W. A.  WHITLOCK
Pilot seniority date of 8/29/49 on the 10/28/67 combined FL/CN pilot seniority list.
Walt was one of the original CN employees.
-Jake Lamkins
(7/25/09)