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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Gulstm 500A · Billings, MT · June 21, 1988

Date: June 21, 1988 · 09:15 local
Place: Billings, MT
Airport: Billings Logan International
Phase of flight: Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N9135N
Reported as: Gulstm 500A
People aboard: 2
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 8,000 total500 in this make and model150 in the last 90 days

N9135NRegistered now · Aero Commander 500-BS/N 1269-92 Airframe modelAero Commander 500-B Engine modelLycoming TI0-540 seriesTurbo-prop

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.

Pilot made a hard landing on a training flight. Nose gear collapsed damaging the nose gear doors.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT MADE A HARD LANDING ON A TRAINING FLIGHT. NOSE GEAR COLLAPSED DAMAGING THE NOSE GEAR DOORS.