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Tue, May 20, 2003

Cavanaugh Museum's Corsair Makes Belly Landing

It's Gonna Be OK

It figures: just when the plane's out of the detail shop, getting all those little scratches fixed, something goes wrong, and then there's more scratches to fix.

So went the story of Doug Cavanaugh's Goodyear-built FG1D Corsair. He told ANN, "We just had it out of the paint shop, getting some touchup. It flew the day before -- it ran good, everything was fine, in an hour-and half flight." So, the beauty was ready to go to see some folks in Denver, but "fifteen minutes into the flight, it lost oil."

Doug didn't know exactly why the oil was missing: "It's in the area of the oil cooler -- it burst, or sprung a leak, or something -- it pumped all the oil out."

Once things had gone to heck, though, Doug's pilot did the right thing. "He picked out a nice soft, plowed field, and slid it in," Doug said.

Damage? "Gear doors, flaps; the engine has to be looked at; and the prop is shot -- the blades are bent. And there's some more scratches."

It's going to be better, soon: "We've already got it on its wheels and in a barn," Doug assured us, "and it's coming back home in a couple days. There's no serious structural damage."

**   Report created 5/19/2003   Record 14   **
IDENTIFICATION
  Regis#: 451FG        Make/Model: FG1D      Description: 1945 GOODYEAR FG1D
  Date: 05/16/2003     Time: 1915
  Event Type: Incident   Highest Injury: None     Mid Air: N    Missing: N
  Damage: Minor
LOCATION
  City: ERA   State: TX   Country: US
DESCRIPTION
  ACFT LOST OIL PRESSURE AND MADE A GEAR UP EMERGENCY LANDING, ERA, TX
INJURY DATA      Total Fatal:   0
                 # Crew:  1     Fat:   0     Ser:   0     Min:   0     Unk:   
                 # Pass:   0     Fat:   0     Ser:   0     Min:   0     Unk:   
                 # Grnd:         Fat:   0     Ser:   0     Min:   0     Unk:   
WEATHER: GLE METAR 1847Z 250019KT 10SM CLR 27/15 A2968
OTHER DATA
  Activity: Pleasure      Phase: Unknown      Operation: General Aviation
  Departed: ADDISON ARPT, TX            Dep Date: 05/16/2003   Dep. Time:
  Destination: DENVER, CO               Flt Plan: NONE         Wx Briefing: Y
  Last Radio Cont: NONE
  Last Clearance: NONE
  FAA FSDO: FORT WORTH, TX  (SW19)                Entry date: 05/19/2003

FMI: www.cavanaughflightmuseum.com/Aircraft/Corsair/Page1.html

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