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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Amtrpt PITTSPECS1C · Macon, GA · February 13, 1980

Date: February 13, 1980 · 13:30 local
Place: Macon, GA
Airport: Herbert Smart
Phase of flight: Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N3HD
Reported as: Amtrpt PITTSPECS1C
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 850 total150 in this make and model0 in the last 90 days

N3HDRegistration cancelled Jan 28, 1999 · Darley PITTS SPECIAL S-1CS/N 4085HD Airframe modelDarley PITTS SPECIAL S-1C

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.

Pilot stated on landing he felt a shudder in tail wheel & then lost directional control. Ground-looped.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT STATED ON LANDING HE FELT A SHUDDER IN TAIL WHEEL & THEN LOST DIRECTIONAL CONTROL. GROUND-LOOPED.

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

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