- Date
- August 6, 1982, 15:00 local (20:00 UTC)
- Place
- Dixon, IL
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N195SBCessna 195A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 6, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 70486
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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.
Loss of control - on ground/water
Weather condition - tailwindFactor
Directional control - not maintainedCause
Ground loop/swerve - inadvertentCause
Main gear collapsed
Analysis
The pilot landed downwind on runway 26 and the aircraft groundlooped during the landing roll. The main landing gear and left wing tip were damaged during the swerve.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N195SB
- Reported as
- Cessna 195A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 7374
- Airframe hours
- 2,419
- Engine
- Jacobs R-755-B2, 350 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Robert L. Finley
- Registered owner
- Robert L. Finley
- Departed
- Oshkosh, WI
- Destination
- Dixon, IL
- Airport
- 1L6 · Dixon Municipal, runway 26, 3,100 × 100 ft, macadam
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
- 45
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 597 total · 31 in this make and model · 545 as pilot in command · 48 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 90° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 3 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,500 ft overcast