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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Amtren VOLKSPLANE · Mojave, CA · November 2, 1981

Date
November 2, 1981 · 09:46 local
Place
Mojave, CA
Airport
Mojave
Phase of flight
Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N5542
Reported as
Amtren VOLKSPLANE*
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
80 total1 in this make and model2 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.

Left the end of the runway on high speed taxi. First time in homebuilt aircraft. Lost control unable to stop.

As the FAA filed it

LEFT THE END OF THE RUNWAY ON HIGH SPEED TAXI.FIRST TIME IN HOMEBUILT AIRCRAFT. LOST CONTROL UNABLE TO STOP.