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Note pictures used are NOT of planes involved in deployments, they are just for reference.

#	Lives Saved	Aircraft	Pilot Name	Altitude	Reason for Deployment	Date
1	1	Pterodactyl	Jay Tipton	300 ft	Loss of Control	8/83
2	1	Eagle	John Peterson	400 ft	Engine Out/Unlandable	9/83
3	1	Eagle XL	Jon Lindskog	100 ft	Engine Out/Unlandable	12/83
4/5	2	Eagle XL	Bill Lapointe	250 ft	Structural Failure	2/84
6/7	2	Tierra	Brian Molstad	350 ft	Engine Out/Unlandable	5/84
8	1	Rally 2B	John McWilliams	100 ft	Engine Out/Unlandable	6/84
9	1	Eagle XL	Karen Schneider	65 ft	Structural Failure	8/84
10	1	Eagle XL	Gilles Gagne	1,000 ft	Structural Failure	8/84
11/12	2	Tierra	Rick Van Voast	50-75 ft	Engine Out/Unlandable	9/84
13/14	2	Eagle XL	Mike Pair	125 ft	In-Flight Fire	11/84
15/16	2	Windrider	John Curles	100 ft	Loss of Control	4/85
17	1	Eagle	Pat Rollins	4,000 ft	Structural Failure	7/85
18	1	Starflight	Unknown (France)	Unknown	Structural Failure	?/85
19	1	Pterodactyl	Unknown (France)	Unknown	Structural Failure	?/85
20	1	Weedhopper	Art Lombas	300 ft	Loss of Control	12/86
21	1	Weedhopper	Norman Flug	100 ft	Engine Out/Unlandable	3/86
22/23	2	Tierra II	Mark Fell	400 ft	Loss of Control	6/86
24	1	Mainair trike	Olaf Rudolfsen	650 ft	Structural Failure	6/86
25	1	Cobra	Chris Dunham	150 ft	Engine Out/Unlandable	7/86
26	1	Kolb	Michael Plonski	300 ft	Component Failure	7/87
27/28	2	Maxair	Rod Bridge	100 ft	Engine Out/Unlandable	2/88
29	1	Beaver	Mitsuru Nishijima	65 ft	Loss of Control	4/88
30	1	Phantom	Don Eccker	3,000 ft	Structural Failure	6/88
31	1	Condor	Wayne Tibbs	60 ft	Component Failure	9/88
32	1	Eipper MX	Jon Maysick	75 ft	Loss of Control	10/88
33	1	Avenger	Jack Britton	1,000 ft	Structural Failure	5/89
34	1	Challenger	Enrico Savoia	250 ft	Loss of Control	?/89
35	1	Magic Kiss HG	Geoff Loyns	11,500 ft	Violent Air/Tumble	7/89
36	1	Kolb Lonnie	Asher	Unknown	Engine Out/Unlandable	8/89
37	1	Mitchell Wing	Wolfgang Link	350 ft	Loss of Control	8/89
38	1	Quicksilver	Jerry Jacobs	300 ft	Loss of Control	2/90
39	1	Own Design	Tom Rogers	3,000 ft	Loss of Control	4/90
40	1	UP Axis HG	Greg Rossignol	500 ft	Structural Failure	6/90
41	1	Kolb FireStar	Todd Craig	500 ft	Loss of Control	2/90
42/43	2	Trike	Written Report Not Received	120 ft	Structural Failure	?/90
44	1	Wills Wing HG	Carl Shortt	50-75 ft	Violent Air/Tumble	8/90
45	1	Chickenox	José M. Estébanez	65 ft	Loss of Control	9/90
46	1	Falcon	Chuck Shepard	300 ft	Structural Failure	10/90
47	1	Quicksilver	Ed Moroney	75 ft	Component Failure	11/90
48	1	Trike	Unknown	Unknown	Loss of Control	?/90
49	1	Trike	Unknown	Unknown	Loss of Control	?/90
50	1	Kolb FireStar	Bob Ballantyne	1,100 ft	Aerobatic Failure	1/91
51	1	Trike	Thomas Grueter	400 ft	Structural Failure	5/91
52	1	Seedwings HG	Bruce Bolles	2,500 ft	Structural Failure	6/91
53	1	Eagle XL	George Kuchak	100 ft	Engine Out/Unlandable	7/91
54	1	Spitfire	David Holland	80-100 ft	Engine Out/Unlandable	10/91
55	1	Quicksilver	Douglas Guay	150 ft	Loss of Control	2/92
56	1	Phantom	Jim Campbell	400 ft	Loss of Control	6/92
57	1	Challenger II	Bob Wall	50-60 ft	Engine Out/Unlandable	7/92
58	1	Moyes XS155HG	David Corbin	2,000 ft	Mid-Air Collision	8/92
59	1	Challenger II	Stephen Lincoln	100-150 ft	Loss of Control	8/92
60	1	GT500	Prather Warren	3150 ft	Loss of Control	10/92
61	1	Quicksilver	Barry Isom	300 ft	Engine Out/Unlandable	11/92
62/63	2	Trike	Richard Hill	150 ft	Structural Failure	11/92
64	1	Sky-Walker	Guenther Schulze	250 ft	Loss of Visibility	11/92
65	1	MX-II	Mike Purcell	100 ft	Loss of Control	12/92
66/67	2	Unknown	Unknown (Spain)	Unknown	Loss Control/Aerobatics	?/93
68/69	2	FK-9	Schwäger Melzer	200 ft	Component Failure	4/93
70	1	Jetfox	Dalla Paola Umberto	200 ft	Loss of Control	6/93
71	1	Mitchell Wing	Brian Withrow	400 ft	Loss of Control	7/93
72	1	UltraStar	James Rodeghero	100 ft	Loss of Control	7/93
73	1	Wills Wing	HG Brad Koji	10,000 ft	Violent Air/Tumble	7/93
74	1	Dragonfly	John Carlton	3600 ft	Component Failure	1/94
75	1	Buccaneer	Classified Military	Unknown	Classified Military Info	?/94
76	1	Buccaneer	Classified Military	Unknown	Classified Military Info	?/94
77	1	Buccaneer	Classified Military	Unknown	Classified Military Info	?/94
78	1	MX	Tom Kennedy	300 ft	Engine Out/Unlandable	6/94
79/80	2	Sunwheel	Mr. & Mrs. Assion	3250 ft	Loss of Control	7/94
81	1	Rotec Rally 3	Donald Bish	300 ft Engine	Out/Unlandable	8/94
82	1	Enterprise HG	Dave Bobrowski	500 ft	Structural Failure	8/94
83	1	RamAir 154 HG	Steve Rathbun	2,400 ft	Loss of Control/Tumble	9/94
84	1	Cobra	John Entwistle	50-60 ft 4	Structural Failure	10/9
85	1	Cobra	James Smith	1,000 ft	Component Failure	5/95
86	1	SquadronSE-5A	Unknown	100 ft	Not Yet Released	?/95
87	1	Bobcat	v. A. Bücker	Info Held	Not Yet Released	?/95
88	1	Prototype	Info Withheld by Government Germany		Not Yet Released	7/95
89	1	Paraglider	Claudio Frey	130 ft Loss of	Control/Tumble	9/95
90/91	2	RANS S-12	Oliver Szugat	Info Held Not Yet Released		1/96
92/93	2	FK-9	Zesewitz	150 ft	Not Yet Released	6/96
94	1	Tucano	Wieduwilt	150 ft	Violent Air/Tumble	7/96
95	1	Firefly	David Freidman	150 ft	Loss of Control	8/96
96	1	B&F FK-9	Franz Josef Kramer	300 ft	Loss of Control/Flutter	8/96
97	1	Dragonfly	Austin Collins	1,700 ft	Loss of Control/Inverted	9/96
98	1	Firestar II	Jim Hall	200 ft	Loss of Control/Spin	9/96
99	1	Dragonfly	Peter Taylor	300-400 ft	Structual Failure	11/96
100	1	CT	Test Pilot	300 km/h 1,200 ft	Structural Failure	2/97
101	1	Sensor 510C	Doug Prather	200 ft	Structural Failure	4/97
102	1	Talon XP	Robert Hendrick	50 ft	Loss of Control/Joystick	5/97
103	1	Paraglider	Unknown(Germany)	200 ft	Violent Air	5/97
104	1	Challenger	Chas Laversa	500 ft	Structural Failure	6/97
105	1	Teman Monofly	Ron Kline	400 ft	Loss of Control	6/97
106	1	MX	Charles Handley	75 ft	Loss of Control/Weather	7/97
107	1	Edel Sabre PG	Jon Lorentzen	300 ft	Loss of Control/Weather	7/97
108	1	Weedhopper	James Baker	100 ft	Engine out/Unlandable	8/97
109/110	2	Silent Trike	Pilot and passenger	1,750 ft	Loss of Control/Spiral	10/97
111	1	Spitfire	Dave Ryan	Unknown	Elevator Cable Failure	10/97
112	1	Phantom	Robert Otto	60-70 ft	Structural Failure	11/97
113	1	TST-1 Alpin	Randall Kennedy	2,000 ft	Loss of Control	12/97
114/115	2	GT500	Doak Neal	900-1200 ft	Structural Failure	12/97
116/117	2	MX-II	Stan Carr & student	Unknown	Engine Out/Inexperienced	1/98
118	1	Kiebitz	Name Not Released	900 ft	Engine Out/Unlandable	4/98
119	1	Pulsar 582	Tom Wolfe	900-1400 ft	Loss of Control	6/98
120/121	2	Merlin MU912	Ed Dockendorf	90 ft	Component Failure	6/98
122	1	Awaiting Report	Awaiting Report	Pending	Pending	?/99
123	1	Mitchell Wing	Ken Mercer	150 ft	Component Failure	4/99
124	1	Titan Tornado	Cecil Martin	25 ft	Struck obstacle on approach	4/99
125	1	MX	Jim Elder	Unknown	Failure during aerobatics	5/99
126	1	Tukan Trike	Leonard Gallman	900 ft	Structural Failure	5/99
127/128	2	FK-9	Unknown (Germany)	100 ft	Loss of control(aileron jam)	6/99
129	1	Challenger II	David Bock	4-5000 ft	Structural Failure	6/99
130/131	2	Flightstar II	R. Johnson & Student	150 ft	Loss of Control/Weather	12/99
132	1	Millennium	Steve Nootenboom	500 ft	Loss of Control/Aerobatics	1/00
133	1	Dragonfly	Bob McFee	1000 ft	Component Failure	4/00
134	1	Aero-Lite 103	Martin Miller	200 ft	Loss of Control	6/00

 

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