N4JL

Looking for information regarding this plane and the history of what happened to it. It was sold to a guy from San Francisco and found in a grass strip in Nogales, Mexico. The log books were sold to a guy in Minnesota however he never received the plane. A FAA investigation had been conducted to trace the plane back to a drug enforcement case.

Tail Number N4JL

BEECH - D50C

Incident Summary

N4JL, a Beech D50C aircraft, was involved in an incident during level off touchdown on December 24, 1981 at 12, at Muni (), located in Des Moines, IA.

There were a total of 2 people on board, of which 0 were flight crew members, 0 were cabin crew members, and 2 were passengers. No fatalities occured.

At the time of the incident, the pilot in command held a commercial pilot certification, and had a total of 6000 hours of flying experience.

The aircraft had accumulated 4267 hours of flight time, and was powered by 2 engines. The engines were manufactured by Lyc, under type Go480g2d6.

Incident Description

Pilot forgot to lower gear until propellers hit runway, pulled up, dropped gear and landed without go around.

Last USCAR/action c.1986