On Saturday, 14 August at Tracy, California airport TCY, a powered parachute made an unscheduled and unmanned departure from the 2010 Burrito Run Annual Powered Parachute Rally when the pilot may have unwittingly hit the throttle while standing beside it. The 500 square-foot SIX SHOOTER parachute, weighing about 400 pounds, soared aloft thoiusands of feet until out of sight. No reports of damage or injuries indicated it probably came down before noon Saturday in an unpopulated area.
I have just one photo taken at OSH of a powered parachute, N3807A, a 2007 Powrachute AIR WOLF powered by a Rotax 912ULS of 100 Hp. This incident suggests these aircraft could be equipped with the SPOT GPS transmitter, to aid in unmanned-flight recovery.