- Date
- June 7, 1990, 17:45 local (21:45 UTC)
- Place
- Albany, GA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N75064Champion Aeronca 7CCM
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 9, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900607025249A
- Case key
- 8248
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Probable cause
Failure of the pilot in command to directional control on takeoff initial climb, and failure to maintain a visual lookout for obstacles.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
The pilot stated that on takeoff from a touch and go landing he allowed the airplane to drift to the right and collided with trees. The pilot reported he had a total of 2765 hours of total logged flight time of which 67 were in tailwheel equipped airplane.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N75064
- Reported as
- Champion Aeronca 7CCM (AERONCA 7C)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 48509
- Airframe hours
- 753
- Engine
- Continental C-90-12-F, 90 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- William B. Jackson
- Registered owner
- Heritage Equities
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 17, 1990 · 2 hours before
- Destination
- NONE
- Airport
- NONE, runway 27, 2,800 × 50 ft, grass/turf
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 60
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 2,765 total · 1 in this make and model · 2,555 as pilot in command · 74 in the last 90 days · 26 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 170° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 95 °F, dew point 66 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ABY
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N75064 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.