UPDATE: “The Celebration of Life” for Game Warden Pilot Joshua Tibbetts will be Thursday, May 21st at 1:00pm at the Cross Insurance Center Arena in Bangor.
A celebration of life will be held next week for a Maine game warden who was killed in a plane crash in Avon. https://t.co/rQZOfEP47x
— CBS 13 News (@WGME) May 15, 2026
At Approximately 11:00am, May 12, a Maine Warden Service airplane crashed in the town of Avon.
Maine Game Warden Pilot, 50-year-old Josh Tibbetts, of New Gloucester, was killed in the crash. Josh was a Maine Game Warden for 18 years, three of those as a warden service pilot.
Franklin County Emergency Rescue Personnel and Franklin County Sheriff’s Deputies were the first to reach the scene, and were later joined by Maine Game Wardens. The cause of the crash is unknown.
The National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the crash, as they do with all aircraft crashes. The Department will assist the NTSB with transportation to the remote, wooded crash site, and with other aspects of the investigation as needed.
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