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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Univar 415C · Taft, CA · November 24, 1981

Date: November 24, 1981 · 18:00 local
Place: Taft, CA
Airport: Private
Phase of flight: Final Approach
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N3047H
Reported as: Univar 415C
Reported engine: Continental O200*
People aboard: 2
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 1,505 total12 in this make and model11 in the last 90 days

N3047HRegistered now · Ercoupe 415-ES/N 3672 · Built 1946 Airframe modelErcoupe 415-E Engine modelContinental 0-200 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.

Landed short of dirt landing strip in a cotten field. Canadian pilots, U.S. Special purpose cert expired in 1972.

As the FAA filed it

LANDED SHORT OF DIRT LANDING STRIP IN A COTTEN FIELD. CANADIAN PILOTS, U.S. SPECIAL PURPOSE CERT EXPIRED IN 1972.