Services are scheduled tomorrow at the Kona Church of the Nazarene in Kailua, Kona for Island Hoppers tour pilot Katsuhiro Takahashi, 40, killed in last week's Big Island crash of a Cessna 172 in a thick hapu'u forest high on the southeastern slope of Mauna Loa volcano.

Visitation is from 2 to 5 p.m.

Takahashi moved to Hawai'i in 2005 and was an active member of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association and National Association of Flight Instructors.

Private contractors plan to remove the wreckage tomorrow.

Survivors include his wife, Takako, of Kailua, Kona; parents Yutaka and Atsuko Takahashi of Japan, and brother Kenji Takahashi of Japan.

A Hui Hou Crematory & Funeral Home of West Hawai'i is handling arrangements.