- Date
- July 28, 1983, 12:10 local (18:10 UTC)
- Place
- Twin Falls, ID
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N17RVVangrunsven RV-3
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830728035839A
- Case key
- 39739
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Analysis
The home built plane was one of a flt of four acft that were being flown on a cross-country flt. While en route from hillsboro, or to Twin Falls, ID, the pilots had to divert around weather. As they were approaching Twin Falls, N17RV lost power from fuel exhaustion. The plt was unable to reach the arpt, so he landed in a wheat field where the acft nosed over. Reportedly, a strip of wheat, 20 ft wide by 150 ft long, was damaged. The plt reported that he had never known the acft to use more than 7.5 gal/hr, but on this flt it had burned 8.2 gal/hr. He noted that after a recent top overhaul, the acft had additional power & airspeed. The acft had accumulated 9 hrs since the overhaul.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N17RV
- Reported as
- Vangrunsven RV-3
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 173
- Airframe hours
- 1,030
- Engine
- Lycoming O-290-G, 130 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Hugh S. Mosely
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 4, 1983 · 9 hours before
- Departed
- H10 · Hillsboro, OR
- Destination
- TWF · Twin Falls, ID
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
- 41
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 602 total · 85 in this make and model · 388 as pilot in command · 41 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 35° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 77 °F, dew point 55 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- TWF, 5 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.