The story has come to and end as the club has purchased an aircraft to replace or lost 172.
We wanted to step up in performance and were looking for a well equipped Cessna 182 P or Q model with an updated panel to include ADDS-B.
Our president found that first generation Cirrus are selling at...
I had a conversation with the FAA investigator today. His ruling CFIT due to loss of situational awareness.
And that ends the story.
We are still aggressively looking for a replacement but finding it a sellers market. Nicely equipped planes with low to mid time engines are selling faster than...
i just heard from the insurance company and everything that was in the plane stays as salvage. Our only option is to bid on the aircraft when it comes up on their auction site. It's a sealed bit auction so no one sees the others bids.
Hello Jaybird180 and everyone else,
I'm am the maintenance officer and a board member in the club that owned and flew N474SP.
There is speculation that the pilot was not night current. Looking at his scheduled flights for the past year I think that is a fair assumption.
Now to the accident...