- Date
- February 21, 1986, 13:50 local (21:50 UTC)
- Place
- Santa Ynez, CA
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N50CHHenley Aerodrome Fokker DR1
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860221004759A
- Case key
- 25077
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
A homebuilt aerodrome fokker DR1 crashed after takeoff. The acft had been in storage for over 5 yrs and had just completed an annual inspection. The flt was a post annual inspection test flt. The plt had extensive experience maintaining and flying homebuilt acft and biplanes, but he had never flown a tri-wing acft before. The acft climbed to approximately 50 ft after takeoff and maintained that alt down the length of the rwy. At the end of the rwy the acft began a skidding left turn and a climb. While in the turn the acft nose pitched down and the acft dove into the ground.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N50CH
- Reported as
- Henley Aerodrome Fokker DR1 (AERODROME)
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 7
- Airframe hours
- 7
- Engine
- Warner SUPERSCARAB14, 145 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Positioning · Part 91
- Operator
- Dan Mattice
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 12, 1986
- Departed
- IZA · Santa Ynez, CA
- Airport
- IZA · Santa Ynez, runway 26, 2,800 × 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
- 61
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Front
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 5,245 total · 1 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- 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.