BENTON COUNTY, ARKANSAS, Ark. — One person is dead after a plane crashed into Beaver Lake in Northwest Arkansas on Feb. 26.

A member of the Arkansas Air & Military Museum Board of Directors died Thursday when his plane crashed into Beaver Lake.

Multiple departments have responded to a plane crash at Beaver Lake that has left one person dead.

BCSO said the pilot, 61-year-old male Kim Sweet, is dead.

The Arkansas Air & Military Museum at Drake Field is remembering the life of Kim Sweet after he was tragically killed in a ...

61-year-old Kim Sweet from Rogers was an experienced pilot who spent decades instructing and teaching aviation history.

Federal investigators are looking into a deadly small plane crash in northwest Arkansas after an aircraft went down into Beaver Lake in Benton County.

Only the pilot was on board the small private plane, according to the sheriff's office. He did not survive the crash.

Walleye were native to the White River before Beaver, Table Rock and Bull Shoals lakes were built. Between 1964 and 1969, Beaver Lake was stocked with 6 million walleye, but these fish didn't thrive.