The Navy confirmed Sunday that Lt. Cmdr. Kevin Davis, a native of Pittsfield, was the pilot killed in Saturday's Blue Angels plane crash at a South Carolina Airshow.

The jet he was piloting was flying in formation at an air show in Beaufort, S. C., when it went down in a residential neighborhood.

According to the Berkshire Eagle, Davis attended Pittsfield High School before transferring to Reading Memorial High School in Massachusetts for his senior year. Davis graduated from Reading Memorial High School in 1992.

Davis, 32, began flying with the Blue Angels in 2005.

Friends and neighbors of Davis in Pittsfield, Mass., where he was raised, said Sunday he was fascinated with planes from the time he was a child.

During his Navy career, he earned "Top Stick" status in his class at Fighter Squadron 101 at Naval Air Station Oceana, Va., while training in F-14 Tomcat jets. He flew missions supporting the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan and graduated from Navy Flight Weapons School in 2004.

"He was fascinated with airplanes from the time he was little," former neighbor Betty Sweeney said. "He knew what he wanted to do, and he did it. That's the only relief, that he went doing what he wanted to do."