Anthony Alan "Tony" Buechler M.D.

So sorry to hear of Tony's passing. I did maintenance on his P-51 back in the 80's, 25 hour checks, etc. I helped him lay the marble tile in his hangar's bathroom. He was a good friend....Blue skies and Tailwinds.....

Mark Austin

I was heartbroken to hear about Tony's sudden passing. We first met through a mutual friend at an Oshkosh air show years ago.His wife Kris and I immediately connected and as time went on our families became close friends. We raised our young families together with a shared love of aviation. We vacationed in many great places with Tony and Kris and Britanni. My twin daughter's loved "Uncle T" and his laughter! They felt his love too.Having ice cream at the airshow together was a highlight of...

Having first met Tony at Luther College back in 1972, many years ago, we were college study partners, Foosball teammates, and happy to say best of friends. Tony always had a desire to fly and I'd completed my private pilot license in 1971, so destiny was in the making. Tony first flew with me, my future wife Julie and another friend to an airshow in Des Moines IA, Jul 1973, on a flight in a PA-28-180 that he never forgot. He was hooked. Then in the summer of 1976 while he was a medical...

I spent many late nights with Tony working in the Operating Room at St. Mary's. He had superior intelligence and above average sense of humor. I admonished him once for having so much clutter on the top of his anesthesia cart. I asked him why not put all that junk in the drawers of the cart? His answer was simply, I can't do that. Where would I put all my airplane books? I've never met anyone like him. And so Tony... off into the wild blue yonder.
Godspeed.
Gary Krolnik

Like so many others at St. Mary's and St. Luke's, I had the privilege of working with and knowing Tony professionally.
Always enjoyed any and all stories of he and his P-51 Mustang, especially the one of his airborne "meeting" with the WTMJ traffic plane over Milwaukee as well as the birthday flight of Dudley Johnson.

Tony's larger than life personality put a smile on the hearts of many...never to be forgotten.