MOORESBURG, Tenn. (TMX/Gray News) – Dirt track racing legend Scott Bloomquist died Friday morning in a plane crash near his Tennessee home, Moberly Motorsports Park announced.

Bloomquist, 60, “was flying his vintage airplane and crashed on the Bloomquist family farm in Mooresburg,” Reid Millard of Moberly Motorsports Park wrote on Facebook around 7:15 a.m. Friday.

“Along with Scott’s daughter Ariel, his parents, his sister, and all who knew and loved Scott, you are in our hearts and prayers as part of our entire Millard family,” Millard wrote. “God bless, Scott. May you forever fly high on the wings of an eagle.”

According to Hawkins County EMS, the accident occurred on the farm on Brooks Road near Highway 31. Motorists were advised to avoid the area while emergency crews arrived at the scene.

Bloomquist was the only person on board the single-engine Piper J3 that crashed into a barn.

The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the crash, WVLT reports.

Bloomquist has a 40-year career in dirt racing, most recently winning the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series in 2016 and the Dream XXIV race at Eldora Speedway in 2018.

The nine-time national champion also competed in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series and the ARCA Mendards Series.

The owner of the Team Zero Race Car was inducted into the National Dirt Late Model Hall of Fame in 2002.

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