- Date
- July 24, 1986, 17:00 local (Jul 25, 1986, 00:00 UTC)
- Place
- Yuba City, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N504PAmateur Built Barnett J3
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860724035719A
- Case key
- 24979
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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 landing accident occurred after the pilot had made high speed taxi tests along the runway with three liftoffs. After the third liftoff, the pilot said that he found himself too high. He stated that he reduced power and pushed forward on the control stick. The aircraft contacted the ground on the nose wheel, which collapsed and the aircraft nosed over. Although the pilot held a private pilot certificate with an airplane single-engine land rating, this was his first flight in a gyroplane.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N504P
- Reported as
- Amateur Built Barnett J3
- Category
- Gyroplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- OU812
- Airframe hours
- 4
- Engine
- Continental A65-8, 65 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Peter A. Seto
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Unknown · July 18, 1986 · 4 hours before
- Airport
- 052 · Sutter Co., runway 17, 3,040 × 75 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
- 31
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 192 total · 152 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 220° at 11 knots
- 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.