- Date
- September 1, 1986, 16:00 local (21:00 UTC)
- Place
- New Richmond, WI
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2263VShanks/Becker Acro Sport
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 25, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860901043019A
- Case key
- 13334
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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
According to the pilot during landing rollout his left wing encountered three to four foot high grass growing up to the edge of the turf runway. The aircraft then veered off into a ditch. The runway involved is 2100 feet long and 75 feet wide.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2263V
- Reported as
- Shanks/Becker Acro Sport
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 396
- Airframe hours
- 30
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 91
- Operator
- Richard A. Becker
- Registered owner
- William Shanks/Richard Becker
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Unknown · September 16, 1985 · 30 hours before
- Departed
- 21D · Lake Elmo, MN
- Airport
- RNH · New Richmond, runway 22, 2,100 × 75 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
- 45
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 1,806 total · 20 in this make and model · 1,656 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 20 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.