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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Curtiss Museum CURTISS A-1 REPRO · Hammondsport, NY · June 30, 2011

Date: June 30, 2011 · 18:40 local
Place: Hammondsport, NY
Airport: Curtis Museum, Keuka Lake Site
Phase of flight: Takeoff: Rotation
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N511GC
Reported as: Curtiss Museum Curtiss A-1 Repro
People aboard: 1
Fatal injuries: 0
Other injuries: 0
Pilot’s certificate: Airline transport
Pilot’s flight hours: 14,330 total1 in this make and model1 in the last 90 days

N511GCRegistration cancelled Oct 2, 2021 · Curtiss Museum CURTISS A-1 REPROS/N 002 Airframe modelCurtiss Museum CURTISS A-1 REPRO

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.

On June 30, 2011, at approximately 1840, pilot privacy data omitted attempted take off from the waters of Keuka lake near Hammondsport, NY, in a Curtis A-1 traid and over-rotated the aircraft. In an attempt to recover the pilot struck the water in a slight right wing low and slight right drift. The aircraft came to a sudden stop and received substantial damage. The pilot was not injured. The weather was good and the lake was calm.

As the FAA filed it

ON JUNE 30, 2011, AT APPROXIMATELY 1840, PILOT ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ ATTEMPTED TAKE OFF FROM THE WATERS OF KEUKA LAKE NEAR HAMMONDSPORT, NY, IN A CURTIS A-1 TRAID AND OVER-ROTATED THE AIRCRAFT. IN AN ATTEMPT TO RECOVER THE PILOT STRUCK THE WATER IN A SLIGHT RIGHT WING LOW AND SLIGHT RIGHT DRIFT. THE AIRCRAFT CAME TO A SUDDEN STOP AND RECEIVED SUBSTANTIAL DAMAGE. THE PILOT WAS NOT INJURED. THE WEATHER WAS GOOD AND THE LAKE WAS CALM.