Experimental aircraft pilot reported landing with the nose gear retracted.

Attributes
ACN	1505339
Time
Date	201712
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Amateur/Home Built/Experimental
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Landing
Flight Plan	None
Component
Aircraft Component	Nose Gear
Person 1
Function	Single Pilot
Qualification	Flight Crew Private
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 7 Flight Crew Total 268 Flight Crew Type 76
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Flight Deck / Cabin / Aircraft Event Other / Unknown Ground Event / Encounter Gear Up Landing

Narrative:

Landing roll out phase; aircraft nose gear was not extended. The main gear are fixed (not retractable). Subject aircraft is a canard with engine in rear. Aircraft skidded to a stop with wear to skid plate only (aircraft designed to resist damage from these types of landings). No other damage to aircraft/engine/prop and no injury to sole occupant (pilot). The skid to a stop was controlled; and once stopped; gear was extended electrically; and aircraft was taxied to hangar without further delay.pilot unsure as to why nose gear was not extended; but the switch was found in the retracted position upon inspection after stopping on the runway. Pilot believes high workload may be a contributing factor to the incident. Prior aircraft departure was a 737; and tower reported possible wake turbulence. Parallel runway was closed due to an unrelated accident (runway overrun); and this caused a full pattern that disrupted checklist flow as subject aircraft was maneuvering during the straight in approach to accommodate request from tower for slower traffic turning base and #1 to land ahead of subject aircraft.subject aircraft does not have a warning horn for gear if misconfigured; although a gear position light is located at the switch (out of peripheral view area).

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Experimental aircraft pilot reported landing with the nose gear retracted.

Narrative: Landing roll out phase; aircraft nose gear was not extended. The main gear are fixed (not retractable). Subject aircraft is a canard with engine in rear. Aircraft skidded to a stop with wear to skid plate only (aircraft designed to resist damage from these types of landings). No other damage to aircraft/engine/prop and no injury to sole occupant (pilot). The skid to a stop was controlled; and once stopped; gear was extended electrically; and aircraft was taxied to hangar without further delay.Pilot unsure as to why nose gear was not extended; but the switch was found in the retracted position upon inspection after stopping on the runway. Pilot believes high workload may be a contributing factor to the incident. Prior aircraft departure was a 737; and tower reported possible wake turbulence. Parallel runway was closed due to an unrelated accident (runway overrun); and this caused a full pattern that disrupted checklist flow as subject aircraft was maneuvering during the straight in approach to accommodate request from tower for slower traffic turning base and #1 to land ahead of subject aircraft.Subject aircraft does not have a warning horn for gear if misconfigured; although a gear position light is located at the switch (out of peripheral view area).

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.