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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Bbavia 7GCBC · Wakita, OK · June 11, 1980

Date: June 11, 1980 · 11:50 local
Place: Wakita, OK
Phase of flight: To Init Climb(1st Pwr Reduct)
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N50564
Reported as: Bbavia 7GCBC
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 340 total200 in this make and model0 in the last 90 days

N50564Registered now · Bellanca 7GCBCS/N 1157-79 · Built 1979 Airframe modelBellanca 7GCBC Engine modelLycoming 0-320 seriesReciprocating

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 accustomed to using portable fuel cans. Used cans to refuel his airplane from cans. Quit on water takeoff

As the FAA filed it

PILOT ACCUSTOMED TO USING PORTABLE FUEL CANS. USED CANS TO REFUEL HIS AIRPLANE FROM CANS. QUIT ON WATER TAKEOFF