2014 – N114MV- Andy Millin – Velocity XL/FG – Allegan, MI – 0

2014 – N114MV- Andy Millin – Velocity XL/FG – Allegan, MI – 0

A very minor incident in the scheme of things, but worth tracking now that there has been another main gear failure in a XL/FG. On landing Andy got a bad vibration that he thought was a nose wheel shimmy, so he applied very hard braking. As it turns out, the torsional wrap on the main […]

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2004 – N5439N – Charles Bracken – Berkut – Lapeer, MI – 0

2004 – N5439N – Charles Bracken – Berkut – Lapeer, MI – 0

Charles’ Berkut was gorgeous, and a common attendee at many of our local fly-ins. She was lost after impacting wires in the area of Dupont-Lapeer Airport. I was sorry to see her go down, and Charles get hurt. However, he’s back in the air after buying a David Lind built Longeze. Read Charles’ account. (NTSB […]

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1998 – N234Q – Good – Velocity SE/FG – Romulus, MI – 1

  The U.S. Customs Service Air Interdiction Coordination center (DAICC), received notification from a park ranger at Big Bend National Park, TX, of an unidentified airplane entering the United States from Mexico. This airplane did not notify U.S. authorities of its arrival. A U.S. Customs Service aircraft was dispatched, and it intercepted the airplane near […]

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