- Date
- October 6, 1985, 10:00 local (17:00 UTC)
- Place
- Porterville, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N23RLLeslie Quickie II
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19851006063789A
- Case key
- 24992
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The acft received substantial damage during a landing at Porterville while on a local pleasure flt. According to the plt, he bounced the acft several times and it began to porpoise. During the porpoise motion, the propeller and left canard contacted the rwy. The plt lost control and the acft veered to the left of the rwy. The plt reported no mechanical failures with the acft prior to the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N23RL
- Reported as
- Leslie Quickie II
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 2665
- Airframe hours
- 10
- Engine
- Revmaster 2100, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Robert J. Leslie
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Airport
- Porterville, runway 12, 6,000 × 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
- 35
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 378 total · 1 in this make and model · 3 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 5 knots, gusting 10
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.