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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper J3 · Arvada, WY · November 5, 1983

Date: November 5, 1983 · 16:00 local
Place: Arvada, WY
Phase of flight: Low Level Operations
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N98118
Reported as: Piper J3
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 1,000 total900 in this make and model100 in the last 90 days

N98118Registered now · Piper J-3CS/N 18273 Airframe modelPiper J-3C Engine modelContinental C85 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.

Made emergency landing due to a rough engine while looking for cattle. Found water in fuel.

As the FAA filed it

MADE EMERGENCY LANDING DUE TO A ROUGH ENGINE WHILE LOOKING FOR CATTLE. FOUND WATER IN FUEL.