# Incident 19790105000739I: Blanca 1730, Fredricksburg, OH, January 5, 1979

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: January 5, 1979, 05:08 local time
- Place: Fredricksburg, OH
- Phase of flight: Fcd/Prec Ldg From Cruise
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 40.6770° N, 81.8701° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Fredericksburg, OH, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=40.6770&lon=-81.8701&mi=10
- Aircraft: N66PG, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N66PG-2000-06-22) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Bellanca 17-30 (registry code 1220432, https://openairdocs.org/model/bellanca-17-30) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: BLANCA 1730
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 1,000 total, 50 in this make and model, 0 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19790105000739I

## Narrative

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

PILOT RAN A TANK DRY, COULD NOT REGAIN POWER AFTER CHANGING FUEL SELECTOR

## Other reports on N66PG (1)

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.

- [Accident 19960917028549A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19960917028549A), Sep 17, 1996: Blanca 1730 (N66PG), Bowling Green, KY, Substantial damage. Aircraft lost power and disappeared from radar, crashed in a cornfield.

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.

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