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Event FTW84LA037

1983-10-29 HOUSTON, Texas, United States Airport · T86 None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N90318

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

GLOBE GC-1A

Year of manufacture

1946 · 37 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO-360 SER (300 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20110124

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AC7CED

Registrant of record

NELSON LARRY TRUSTEE

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

Factual narrative

THE PLT WAS ON A LOCAL FLT FROM THE WEISER AIRPARK ARPT TO THE LAKESIDE ARPT. THERE WAS CONSTRUCTION AT THE DESTINATION & THE PLT WAS UNSURE WHICH RWY WAS IN USE. HE MADE A GO-AROUND FROM HIS 1ST APCH. AFTER UNICOM HAD CLARIFIED WHERE THE LANDING AREA WAS AT, THE PLT LANDED, BUT FORGOT TO EXTEND THE GEAR. A FIRE ERUPTED DURING THE WHEELS-UP LANDING & THE ACFT BURNED. Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database (Pre-2008 Archive) Retrieved: 2026-02-12

Verbatim from NTSB's published report. Source file NTSB_1983_FTW84LA037.txt. Findings + structured fields enriched from FAA avall.mdb. Full investigation docket on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type or causal vocabulary (go-around). Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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