- Date
- October 3, 1992, 09:30 local (14:30 UTC)
- Place
- Mountain, WI
- Injuries
- 2 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N560CStinson 108-3
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 26, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19921003039939A
- Case key
- 15601
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to refuel the airplane.
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
An airplane undergoing restoration was partly filled with fuel, test run, taxied and flown. The owner took delivery of the airplane at the restoration location and flew home without refueling. The next day he sampled fuel at the drains and took off for a local flight. He did not visually check quantity in the tanks. The engine quit 15 minutes after takeoff. Less than a quart of fuel was drained from the airplane.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N560C
- Reported as
- Stinson 108-3
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 108-3560
- Airframe hours
- 2,000
- Engine
- Franklin 6A4-165-B3, 165 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Hartman, Phillip W., doing business as Hart Tool & Engineering
- Registered owner
- Hartman, Phillip W.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 15, 1992 · 2 hours before
- Departed
- WI31 · Lakewood, WI
- Destination
- WI31
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
- 50
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 950 total · 5 in this make and model · 950 as pilot in command · 5 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 60° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 59 °F, dew point 52 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GRB, 50 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.