- Date
- July 31, 1992, 18:30 local (Aug 1, 1992, 00:30 UTC)
- Place
- Fort Collins, CO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1060URobert D. Waldron Kitfox III
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 26, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920731032079A
- Case key
- 18228
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Probable cause
Loss of control which resulted in dragging a wing tip during flare for landing which ended with a ground loop. A factor was: a tail wind.
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
While conducting touch and go landings the aircraft drifted left of the runway and caught a wing tip which caused a ground loop. The aircraft was landing on runway 06, and the winds were 220 degrees at 10 knots.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1060U
- Reported as
- Robert D. Waldron Kitfox III
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 1060
- Airframe hours
- 98
- Engine
- Rotax 582LC, 65 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Waldron, Robert D.
- Registered owner
- Waldron, Robert D.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 5, 1992 · 48 hours before
- Departed
- FNL
- Airport
- FNL · Fort Collins/Loveland, runway 6, 2,200 × 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
- 37
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 209 total · 98 in this make and model · 50 in the last 90 days · 20 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Variable at 10 knots, gusting 15
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.