- Dates
- 2020-08-13 – 2020-08-18
- Kind
- Safety complaint
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- aviationpublic-safetycommunicationcommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
In August 2020, residents reported that a helicopter marked N14SJ flew very low along Beaver Island’s west shore and later near the harbor, blowing sand and causing alarm. Forum replies associated it with a local company.
Evidence limits
This record preserves a community safety complaint and an unverified aircraft identification. It does not establish the flight’s altitude, legality, pilot, purpose, or whether any official complaint or investigation followed.
Sources
- A participant said helicopter N14SJ flew along the west shore, blew sand while passing, hovered, and alarmed people on the ground; another participant said it had been seen near the harbor. Replies associated the aircraft with a local company using public-registration and business-listing information, while another participant offered unsourced FAA altitude claims. The archive contains no flight log, measured altitude, pilot statement, emergency report, or FAA finding.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 15 · t015526
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Beaver Island Archive, “Residents report an unusually low helicopter flight, 2020”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-low-flying-helicopter-complaint-2020/, accessed [date], citing Marston and forum contributors, “Low-flying helicopter,” Beaver Island Forum, August 13–18, 2020..
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