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Incident · Substantial damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA32300 · Desert Enter, CA · September 2, 1978

Date
September 2, 1978
Place
Desert Enter, CA
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Unknown/Not Reported
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Substantial damage
Aircraft
N56103
Reported as
Piper PA32300
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
0 in this make and model0 in the last 90 days

From the FAA’s Accident/Incident Data System (AIDS), through its Aviation Safety Information Portal, as reported. The NTSB investigates accidents separately, and its record of an accident is the fuller one. The aircraft is matched to the registry 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.

What happened

The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.

Airplane found abandoned, suspect illegal drug operation.

As the FAA filed it

AIRPLANE FOUND ABANDONED, SUSPECT ILLEGAL DRUG OPERATION.