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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Aeronca 7BCM · Chesapeake, VA · November 11, 2010

Date: November 11, 2010 · 15:15 local
Place: Chesapeake, VA
Phase of flight: Takeoff: Climb Out
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N2709A
Reported as: Aeronca 7BCM
Reported engine: Continental C85 series
People aboard: 1
Fatal injuries: 0
Other injuries: 0
Pilot’s certificates: Airline transport, flight instructor
Pilot’s flight hours: 10,230 total30 in this make and model3 in the last 90 days

N2709ARegistered now · Aeronca 7BCMS/N 7BCM-161 · Built 1947 Airframe modelAeronca 7BCM Engine modelContinental C85 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.

Aircraft was practicing touch and gos, temporarily lost engine power, and landed in a soybean field, impacting a ditch.

As the FAA filed it

AIRCRAFT WAS PRACTICING TOUCH AND GOS, TEMPORARILY LOST ENGINE POWER, AND LANDED IN A SOYBEAN FIELD, IMPACTING A DITCH.