- Date
- July 29, 1992, 14:00 local (18:00 UTC)
- Place
- Cadillac, MI
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N4573FCessna A185E
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 31, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920729028039A
- Case key
- 15500
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Probable cause
The pilot's premature liftoff and subsequent stall mush.
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 float-mounted airplane had no wheels. The airplane was placed on a trailer and towed down a 2000-foot runway for takeoff. The airplane lifted off the trailer, eased right, and settled to the runway. It bounced, rocked forward, and tumbled. The airport has a 4500-foot asphalt runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4573F
- Reported as
- Cessna A185E
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 185-1080
- Airframe hours
- 1,451
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-D, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Schmerheim, Randall G.
- Registered owner
- Schmerheim, Randall G.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 6, 1992 · 24 hours before
- Departed
- CAD
- Destination
- NONE · Sapphire Lake, MI
- Airport
- CAD · Wexford County, runway 36, 2,005 × 150 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
- 49
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 8,800 total · 1,800 in this make and model · 7,705 as pilot in command · 225 in the last 90 days · 99 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 10,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 79 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CAD, 1 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.