F-106A 58-0798 crash update from the Lake Huron Exploration `groups` Facebook page 1 Nov 2021 https://www.facebook.com/LakeHuronExploration/

On September 29, 2021, we found it! It is resting upside down in 125' feet of water, between Lexington Michigan and Kettle Point, Ontario, Canada. We also believe we found his ejection seat a little North of the aircraft. We had a high-interest sonar hit during one of our last sonar runs of the season, Jeff noticed the sonar return noted in the left image. We have not been able to get back to the site to conduct more runs in different directions of approach. Once boats are back in the water in May and system(s) checks are completed, we will head to the area and conduct the needed runs, anchor, over the target and deploy the ROV. At this time we believe the plane is upside down because of what appears to be one of the external fuel pods, this is because of the return from the sonar at this angle. This is noted in the image to the right, showing the fuel pod from under the plane of this type. From a look angle from above, only a small portion of the pod would be visible.

History
F-106A 58-0798 of the 94th FIS Selfridge AFB MI with Maj. William J. Vinopal, aged 36, of Mauston, Wisconsin, who was killed in a crash on June 13, 1966 in this aircraft. The 13-year Air Force veteran flying with the co-located 71 FIS at Selfridge. In Dec 2017 the Lake Huron Exploration group began searching Lake Huron to repatriate his lost remains. Information Courtesy of Donald Maury/Lake Huron Exploration. Photo by Steve Hann who still Has original negative of this photo. Crashed 25 miles N-NE of the base into Lake Huron, MI. Pilot Maj William J. Vinopal, 37 of Mauston, Wisconsin flying with the co-located 71st FIS at Selfridge AFB MI in 1966, was killed during ejection. The aircraft wreckage and Maj Vinopal’s remains were never recovered. However, around Memorial Day 2017 a group called "Lake Huron Exploration" with a Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/LakeHuronExploration/ began to search for the aircraft and the majors remains. On the day of the crash 13 Jun 1966, a young George Beebe who was working on the roof of a hospital saw the powerless F-106 gliding low over Lake Huron with a faint trail of smoke following. As it disappears out of his sight, Beebe scrambled to alert the nearby Coast Guard station about a potential downed aircraft. Now, over 50 years later, a group of veterans – including George Beebe, now 85, and his nephew, John are on a mission to locate the wreckage and recover Vinopal’s remains. Along with his uncle George, John Beebe, 56, a retired Michigan Air National Guard technical sergeant, brought together the Lake Huron Exploration group of Air Force and Navy veterans.