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Event SEA83LA097

1983-05-14 LA GRANDE, Oregon, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7757Z

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-25-235

Engine

LYCOMING 0-540 SERIES (250 hp)

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19660404

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AA7EFF

Registrant of record

MINDEN SOARING CLUB INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

Factual narrative

THE ACFT STALLED ABOUT 30 FEET AGL DURING A FORCED LANDING AFTER THE ENGINE QUIT FROM FUEL EXHAUSTION. THE PILOT TOOK THE ACFT FOR A FERRY FLIGHT WITHOUT REFUELING. IT HAD BEEN FLOWN ABOUT 1 HOUR & 15 MINUTES. IT HOLDS ABOUT 36 GALLONS AND BURNS ABOUT 14 GALLONS AN HOUR. THE 1ST LEG OF THE FERRY WAS AN HOUR AND A HALF. ABOUT 5 MILES FROM 1ST FUEL STOP THE ENGINE QUIT. Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database (Pre-2008 Archive) Retrieved: 2026-02-12

Verbatim from NTSB's published report. Source file NTSB_1983_SEA83LA097.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, fuel exhaustion). 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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