Leonard N. Zubkoff

December 19, 1957 - August 28, 2002


A memorial service was held March 29, 2003


This photo was taken Monday, 26 August 2002 at the San Jose house, the morning he left on the trip to Alaska. It shows just how happy Leonard was about learning to fly, and about this trip. I hold on to that thought every day.

This past year Leonard gave up sitting in front of computer screens all day and started living outdoors. He enjoyed canoeing, hiking and driving his sports car. Most of all he loved flying. For the last 8 months Leonard was taking helicopter flying lessons and was very close to getting his license.

When you do a search on google for Leonard Zubkoff there are 12,500 hits. He knew a lot of people, was part of a lot of groups and committees and did a lot of good.

Press Release

NTSB Preliminary Report

San Francisco Chronicle

Past Articles About Leonard
ZDNet 1999
Alcor 2001: search for Dr. Jerry Lemler
VA Linux IPO
FilkNet

If you have any thoughts or memories you would like to share, email them to starlight@puffin.com and we will publish it here.

FAA report
Newspaper Report
Newspaper Report 2
This is an extract of the letter emailed from the person who found the crashed helicopter to Dave's (the helicopter pilot) sister Betty Anne
Pilot's Website

Other Tributes to Leonard
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/04/2333216&mode=thread&tid=99
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dandelion/
http://dandelion.sourceforge.net
http://www.electricpenguin.com/filking/articles/zubkoff.html
Foundry Project
O'Reily Network
dickmorell.com
LinuxNews in Russia
FreeGo in Italy
Hungarian Unix Portal
linuxde.org in Denmark
http://www.filk.com
http://FilkNet
http://www.tomsmithonline.com/news.htm
http://home.earthlink.net/~kayshapero/filkfaq.htm
lwn.net

There has been lots of speculation about the accident. At this time the accident is under investigation by the NTSB and FAA. When we have details we will post them.

Instead of flowers, please send donations to:

Ketchikan Volunteer Rescue Squad , P.O. Box 5786, Ketchikan, AK 99901
I created a website for them and will be hosting it because they were so helpful during the month following the accident. We hope you will be generous with your donations.

Chris and I miss Leonard every day. The way he said something, a face he made, the way he said in his emails or the way he did something pops up on a regular basis. Some make us laugh and some make us cry. Thank you for keeping your emails coming. It helps us cope with our deep loss of our beloved Leonard.

Updated by Jan Jewell 1 March 2003