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Event LAX85LA110

1985-01-13 PLACERVILLE, California, United States Airport · 61Q Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N14000

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

WACO YKC

Year of manufacture

1934 · 51 years old at event

Engine

JACOBS L4 /R755-7 (245 hp)

Seats / Engines

5 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19551101

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0A521

Registrant of record

ALDRICH CURTISS R

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

Factual narrative

ACFT WAS LINED UP ON RWY BUT PLT MISJUDGED HEIGHT AND ACFT STALLED APRX 3 FT ABOVE THE GROUND. ACFT BOUNCED AND UPON CONTACTING THE GROUND VEERED RIGHT. PLT OVER COMPENSATED AND ACFT GROUND LOOPED TRAVELING OFF LEFT SIDE OF RWY INTO A ROAD. THE POND IS APRX 60 FT SOUTH OF THE AIRSTRIP MID-FIELD. LEFT MAIN GEAR WAS SHEARED OFF. Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database (Pre-2008 Archive) Retrieved: 2026-02-12

Verbatim from NTSB's published report. Source file NTSB_1985_LAX85LA110.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 (stall). 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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