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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Swftms GC-1B · Arlington, WA · October 24, 2000

Date: October 24, 2000 · 16:40 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: N3899K
Reported as: Swftms GC1B
People aboard: 1
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 1,500 total1,000 in this make and model10 in the last 90 days

N3899KRegistered now · Temco GC-1BS/N 3599 · Built 1953 Airframe modelTemco GC-1B Engine modelContinental C125 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.

(-23)The pilot was preoccupied with other traffic in the pattern and forgot to lower the gear.

As the FAA filed it

(-23)THE PILOT WAS PREOCCUPIED WITH OTHER TRAFFIC IN THE PATTERN AND FORGOT TO LOWER THE GEAR.