- Date
- October 8, 1986, 13:05 local (17:05 UTC)
- Place
- Keysville, VA
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7100CBellanca 8GCBC
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 25, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 11275
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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 made a tailwheel high touchdown on the 1850 foot grass strip. Shortly after touchdown, the nose dropped and, although the pilot said he moved the control stick fully aft, the propeller struck the ground, and the aircraft flipped inverted.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7100C
- Reported as
- Bellanca 8GCBC
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 357-84
- Airframe hours
- 284
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-C1E, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Public aircraft · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Commonwealth Of Virginia
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 9, 1986 · 85 hours before
- Departed
- W98 · Chesterfield, VA
- Airport
- W85 · Keysville, runway 9, 1,850 × 350 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
- 30
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Helicopter, Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 947 total · 178 in this make and model · 782 as pilot in command · 115 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 230° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 72 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- LYN, 40 nm away
Other investigations on N7100C · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.