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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Amtr Glasair · Arlington, WA · July 17, 1988

Date: July 17, 1988 · 13:00 local
Place: Arlington, WA
Airport: Arlington Municipal Airport
Phase of flight: Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N88JL
Reported as: Amtr Glasair
People aboard: 1
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 1,400 total255 in this make and model80 in the last 90 days

N88JLRegistered now · Levy John Crowell JR GLASAIR RGS/N 463 Airframe modelLevy John Crowell JR GLASAIR RG Engine modelLycoming O&VO-360 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.

Unable to extend nose gear. Landed on turf runway. Found gear door cable tangled in retract mechanism.

As the FAA filed it

UNABLE TO EXTEND NOSE GEAR. LANDED ON TURF RUNWAY. FOUND GEAR DOOR CABLE TANGLED IN RETRACT MECHANISM.