# Incident 20040331010339I: Cessna 210E, Emporia, KS, March 31, 2004

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: March 31, 2004, 14:00 local time
- Place: Emporia, KS
- Airport: Emporia Municipal Airport
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Level Off Touchdown
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 38.3306° N, 96.1899° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at EMPORIA MUNI (EMP), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=38.3306&lon=-96.1899&mi=10
- Aircraft: N4916U, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N4916U-2014-01-16) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Cessna 210E (registry code 2073416, https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-210e) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Continental IO-520 series (registry code 17032, https://openairdocs.org/engine/continental-io-520-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 210E
- Reported engine: CONT IO520A
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 441 total, 111 in this make and model, 6 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20040331010339I

## Narrative

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

(-23) PILOT WAS ON A CROSS-COUNTRY FLIGHT AND WAS MAKING A FUEL STOP AT EMPORIA MUNICIPAL AIRPORT (EMP). WHEN THE LANDING GEAR WAS EXTENDED THE NOSE WHEEL DID NOT INDICATE DOWN AND LOCKED. PILOT FLEW OVER FBO AND GROUND OBSERVERS CONFIRMED THE NOSE GEAR WAS NOT EXTENDED. PILOT PERFORMED THE MANUAL GEAR EXTENSION PROCEDURE BUT WAS UNSUCCESSFUL. AIRCRAFT LANDED WITH THE NOSE GEAR RETRACTED. THE PILOT WAS NOT INJURED AND THE AIRCRAFT SUSTAINED MINOR DAMAGE.

## Other reports on N4916U (2)

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

- [Incident 20120927023549I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20120927023549I), Sep 27, 2012: Cessna 210E (N4916U), Fort Worth, TX, Minor damage. On September 27, 2012, at approximately 1250 LCL, N4916U, a Cessna CE-210E aircraft, sustained minor damage during a gear up landing at Meachum Airport (kftw)…
- [Accident 19860325012709A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19860325012709A), Mar 25, 1986: Cessna 210E (N4916U), Jacksonville, FL, Substantial damage. Secondary relief valve held open by contamination. Normal, manual landing gear operation disabled. Landed gear up.

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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