WEST MILFORD Friends and relatives of West Milford resident Tom Dayon gathered to pay their respects on Tuesday, first at his funeral, then at the Greenwood Lake Airport. Dayon was a well-known local business owner, karate instructor and pilot. On Friday, June 2 Dayon took off in his 1988 Lancair 360 aircraft from the Greenwood Lake Airport. According to Fritz Kass, county aviation director at Orange County Airport, Dayon was alone on board and had filed a flight plan to Orange County Airport to pick someone up. Shortly after 11:30 a.m., Federal Aviation Administration officials notified the New York State Police and other law enforcement authorities that they had been tracking an aircraft that disappeared from the radar within a few miles of the airport. They believed that the plane might have had engine problems and had possibly gone down. Law enforcement and rescue personnel responded to the area and began a search. A New York State Police helicopter located the wreckage in a heavily wooded area at the intersection of Routes 416 and 207 in Campbell Hall, less than a mile from its destination. Dayon, who was 53, was found deceased at the scene. The Lancair was a single engine plane known as a “home built experimental.” New York State Police and FAA investigators are still trying to determine the cause of the crash.