# Incident 20020726023859I: Beech E18S, Houston, TX, July 26, 2002

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: July 26, 2002, 03:57 local time
- Place: Houston, TX
- Airport: William P Hobby Airport
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Level Off Touchdown
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Operator: VD7G
- Location: 29.6458° N, 95.2772° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at WILLIAM P HOBBY (HOU), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=29.6458&lon=-95.2772&mi=10
- Aircraft: N210Q, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N210Q) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Beech E18S (registry code 1151006, https://openairdocs.org/model/beech-e18s) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Pratt & Whitney R-985-AN-14B (registry code 51654, https://openairdocs.org/engine/pratt-whitney-r-985-an-14b) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: BEECH E18S
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 16,000 total, 500 in this make and model, 150 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20020726023859I

## Narrative

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

(-23) AIRCRAFT DEPARTED SUGARLAND MUNICIPAL AIRPORT (SGR) AND CONDUCTED AERIAL APPLICATION OPERATIONS. UPON RETURN TO SUGARLAND THE PILOT PLACED THE GEAR SELECTOR IN THE DOWN POSITION BUT DID NOT GET A DOWN INDICATION. THE PILOT GOT CONFIRMATION THAT THE GEAR APPEARED TO BE DOWN FROM ANOTHER PILOT. THE PILOT THEN FLEW TO WILLIAM P. HOBBY AIRPORT (KHOU) FOR LANDING. THE AIRCRAFT OVERFLEW THE RUNWAY AND THE AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER CONFIRMED THAT THE GEAR APPEARED TO BE DOWN. ON LANDING THE GEAR COLLAPSED ALMOST IMMEDIATELY. THE AIRCRAFT SLID ON ITS BELLY APPROXIMATELY 1150 FEET.

## Other reports on N210Q (2)

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

- [Accident 20260802008759A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20260802008759A), Aug 2, 2026: Beech E18S (N210Q), Guymon, OK, Destroyed, 1 fatal. On August 2, 2026, at approximately 16:06 CDT (2106Z), a BE-E18S bearing registration number [privacy data omitted], crashed shortly after takeoff from runway…
- [Incident 19990806010929I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19990806010929I), Aug 6, 1999: Beech E18S (N210Q), Fort Smith, AR, Minor damage. Springdale air service cargo acft landing gear collapsed on take-off, and the acft skidded down the rwy and sustained substantial damage, no injuries were…

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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