Experimental/Amateur-Built rates are comparable to the certified fleet’s, but we could do better.

By Ron Wanttaja

My previous two articles for this magazine on homebuilt accident causes focused on specific three-year periods: 1998 to 2000 for my article in 2004, and 2002 to 2004 for a similar article published in 2006. Each of these studies addressed a separate set of about 650 accidents—not a bad amount, but larger sample sizes are always better.

By adding the NTSB data from the year 2001 (between the two studies) and two later years, my database now covers from January 1998 to December 2006. That gives us a nine-year period with almost 2000 homebuilt accidents. Let’s see how the numbers come out.…

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