- Date
- August 6, 1983, 15:00 local (20:00 UTC)
- Place
- Portage, WI
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N46807Beemer Pitts S-1C
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 12341
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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 acft had just been purchased & was being ferried to palatka, FL. During the landing roll at an en route arpt, the acft ground looped, and subsequently, came to rest inverted. The plt stated that this was his 1st landing in the pitts S-10 & that he was unfamiliar with its high speed landing & taxi characteristics.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N46807
- Reported as
- Beemer Pitts S-1C
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 339H
- Airframe hours
- 61
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-320-B1A, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Ferry · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Charles A. Barrineau
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · July 28, 1983 · 10 hours before
- Departed
- 0WI4 · Montello, WI
- Airport
- C47 · Portage Municipal, runway 17, 3,360 × 40 ft, asphalt
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
- 29
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 1,738 total · 1 in this make and model · 1,610 as pilot in command · 161 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F