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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 150M · Olympia, WA · March 12, 1988

Date: March 12, 1988 · 12:40 local
Place: Olympia, WA
Airport: Olympia
Phase of flight: Forced/Precautionary Landing
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N704NC
Reported as: Cessna 150M
Reported engine: Continental O200A
People aboard: 2
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 100 total60 in this make and model15 in the last 90 days

N704NCRegistered now · Cessna 150MS/N 15078734 Airframe modelCessna 150M 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.

Engine made a loud noise on initial climbout. Returned. Found intake valve keepers on NR3 cylinder head had failed.

As the FAA filed it

ENGINE MADE A LOUD NOISE ON INITIAL CLIMBOUT. RETURNED. FOUND INTAKE VALVE KEEPERS ON NR3 CYLINDER HEAD HAD FAILED.