Airshow Excitement Proved Pretty Exciting

As we understand it, nothing was wrong, and nobody got hurt. During Saturday's Quad Cities Air Show at Davenport (IA) Municipal Airport (DVN), the Mustang's air work was wrapping up. It was just one of those, "didn't put the gear down" kinds of things...

[Thanks to Greg Boll and the Quad City Times, for the recovery photo below  --ed.]

**   Report created 6/10/2003   Record 12  **
IDENTIFICATION
  Regis#: 6306T        Make/Model: P51D      Description: NORTH AMERICAN/AERO CLASSICS
  Date: 06/07/2003     Time: 1540
  Event Type: Incident   Highest Injury: None     Mid Air: N    Missing: N
  Damage: Minor
LOCATION
  City: DAVENPORT   State: IA   Country: US
DESCRIPTION
  ACFT ON LANDING RUNWAY 15, LANDED GEAR UP AND SKIDDED OFF THE WEST SIDE OF THE RUNWAY, OTHER CIRCUMSTANCES ARE UNKNOWN, DAVENPORT, IA
INJURY DATA      Total Fatal:   0
                 # Crew:  1     Fat:   0     Ser:   0     Min:   0     Unk:   
                 # Pass:   0     Fat:   0     Ser:   0     Min:   0     Unk:   
                 # Grnd:         Fat:   0     Ser:   0     Min:   0     Unk:   
WEATHER: UNK
OTHER DATA
  Activity: Pleasure      Phase: Landing      Operation: General Aviation
  Departed: UNK                         Dep Date:    Dep. Time:
  Destination: UNK                      Flt Plan: UNK          Wx Briefing: U
  Last Radio Cont: UNK
  Last Clearance: UNK
  FAA FSDO: DES MOINES, IA  (CE01)                Entry date: 06/10/2003