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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Stolam RC-3 · Petaluma, CA · September 13, 2005

Date
September 13, 2005 · 17:00 local
Place
Petaluma, CA
Airport
Petaluma Municipal Airport
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N87465
Reported as
Stolam RC3
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
144 total45 in this make and model2 in the last 90 days

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) Pilot forgot to put the gear handle down and landed the aircraft with the gear in the retracted position. Minor damage to aircraft. No injuries.

As the FAA filed it

(-23) PILOT FORGOT TO PUT THE GEAR HANDLE DOWN AND LANDED THE AIRCRAFT WITH THE GEAR IN THE RETRACTED POSITION. MINOR DAMAGE TO AIRCRAFT. NO INJURIES.