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DEN86FTI01

1986-03-03 · GILLETTE, Wyoming, United States · Minor · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Airport GCC

N1175 has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (CESSNA 175, built 1958), which was not involved in this event.

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Factual narrative

ON MARCH 3, 1986 AT APPROXIMATELY 1715 MST, AN EXPERIMENTAL MILLER, SIEVERS SPECIAL, STRUCK THE GROUND DURING TAKEOFF AT THE GILLETTE-CAMPBELL COUNTY AIRPORT, GILLETTE, WYOMING. THE PILOT STATED THAT JUST AFTER TAKEOFF ON RUNWAY 34, THE AIRCRAFT APPEARED TO LOSE A LITTLE POWER AT APPROXIMATELY 500 FEET AS HE WAS STARTING A LEFT TURN. THE AIRCRAFT HAD INSUFFICIENT AIRSPEED AND STALLED. THE PILOT INDICATED THE AIRSPEED WAS INDICATING ABOUT 60 MPH. HE ATTEMPTED RECOVERY BY PUSHING THE CONTROL STICK FORWARD AND HEADED FOR A FIELD WEST OF THE RUNWAY. NO REASON FOR THE POWER LOSS COULD BE DETERMINED. Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database (Pre-2008 Archive) Retrieved: 2026-02-12

Verbatim from NTSB's published report. Source file NTSB_1986_DEN86FTI01.txt. Findings + structured fields enriched from FAA avall.mdb. Full investigation docket on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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