# Incident 19880430030509I: Beech 65A90, Austin, TX, April 30, 1988

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: April 30, 1988, 10:45 local time
- Place: Austin, TX
- Airport: Robert Mueller Municipal
- Phase of flight: Normal Cruise
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 30.2672° N, 97.7431° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Austin, TX, within about 10 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=30.2672&lon=-97.7431&mi=10
- Aircraft: N8180, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N8180-1993-10-14) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Beech 65-A90 (registry code 1152908, https://openairdocs.org/model/beech-65-a90) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: BEECH 65A90
- People aboard: 5
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 6,000 total, 1,250 in this make and model, 100 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19880430030509I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

HEATER EMITTING ODOR THEN SMOKE, WAS SHUT OFF. RETURNED, SMOKE CLEARED SO CONTINUED. SHORTED ON GOVERNOR SWITCH.

## Other reports on N8180 (1)

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.

- [Incident 19920109002879I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19920109002879I), Jan 9, 1992: Beech 65A90 (N8180), Rochester, NY. On landing NR2 engine right forward cowling departed aircraft. Cowl latch had come loose.

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft 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. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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