# Accident 19730703018869A: Piper PA18A150, Fayetteville, NC, July 3, 1973

- Type: FAA accident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: July 3, 1973
- Place: Fayetteville, NC
- Damage: Substantial damage
- Phase of flight: Low Level Operations
- Location: 35.0527° N, 78.8784° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Fayetteville, NC, within about 7 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=35.0527&lon=-78.8784&mi=10
- Aircraft: N7475D, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N7475D-1974-09-20) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Piper PA-18A 150 (registry code 7101837, https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-18a-150) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA18A150
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 2,000 total, 460 in this make and model, 0 in the last 90 days
- NTSB investigation: [NTSB IAD74FLJ01](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/IAD74FLJ01) (OpenAirDocs)
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19730703018869A

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

FLT TOWARD TREE LINE A LITTLE DEEP PULL UP MORE STEEPLY.UN CK DSCNT IN TURN,SPRAYING WATER.

## The NTSB's investigation of this event (1)

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

- [NTSB IAD74FLJ01](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/IAD74FLJ01), Jul 3, 1973: Piper PA-18A (N7475D), Fayetteville, NC, substantial damage

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

---
OpenAirDocs.org is an independent research project of [Contrail Labs](https://contraillabs.com/). It is not affiliated with the FAA or the NTSB. Source documents are U.S. government works in the public domain.