Amateur/Home Built/Experimental
Flight Crew Flight Instructor; Flight Crew Commercial; Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Multiengine
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 200; Flight Crew Total 2000; Flight Crew Type 30
Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy
Air Traffic Control Provided Assistance; Aircraft Aircraft Damaged; Flight Crew Landed in Emergency Condition; General Flight Cancelled / Delayed; General Maintenance Action
Aircraft
I was on my 4th leg in a ferry flight; I had a sudden consecutive RPM drop; I applied carb heat with full power; didn't help much; start to lose altitude slowly over the water; I went direct to the nearest airport and contacted the tower; at the beginning it seemed to me I will land in the water so I put my ELT manually ON; by the time I reached there they cleared me to land Runway XX; I was able to make it to the runway; after landing there was a lot of oil leak on the nose wheel; struts and all over the belly.
Pilot reported an engine failure caused an emergency landing at the destination airport.