SMA TWIN HAS L MAIN LNDG GEAR STUCK IN THE UP POS AND WON'T EXTEND EVEN BY EMER PROCS. GEAR-UP LNDG IS MADE. MINOR ACFT DAMAGE AND NO INJURY TO THE PLT.

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I WAS THE PIC; AND THE ONLY OCCUPANT; OF A FLT IN OUR BEECH TRAVELAIR (BE95) ON JUL/XX/94. I FILED AN INSTR FLT PLAN FROM HONOLULU; HAWAII TO KAILUA-KONA; HAWAII. I DEPARTED HONOLULU AT APPROX XA00 HRS LCL TIME AND PLANNED THE FLT FOR APPROX 1 HR AND 15 MIN ENRTE TO KONA. THE DEP AND ENRTE PORTIONS OF THE FLT WERE NORMAL. UPON REACHING KEAHOLE ARPT AT KAILUA-KONA; I PERFORMED THE STANDARD DSCNT AND BEFORE LNDG PROCS AND CHKLISTS. NO ABNORMALITIES WERE NOTED DURING THESE PROCS. I RECEIVED A 'GREEN LIGHT' FOR GEAR DOWN AND LOCKED AS WELL AS THE POINTER INDICATOR LOCATED BY THE RUDDER PEDALS INDICATED THE GEAR WAS DOWN. I WAS CLRED FOR THE VISUAL APCH TO RWY 17 AT KEAHOLE BY THE TWR. DURING MY FINAL APCH; THE TWR TOLD ME I HAD A GEAR PROB AND TO GAR. I EXECUTED A GAR AND TOLD THE TWR THAT THE GEAR INDICATORS IN THE COCKPIT INDICATED I DID NOT HAVE A GEAR PROB; AND THAT I HAD A GREEN LIGHT FOR GEAR DOWN AS WELL AS THE POINTER INDICATOR SHOWED GEAR DOWN. TWR TOLD ME TO RECYCLE THE GEAR. I RECYCLED THE GEAR AND ASKED TWR FOR A LOW APCH SO THEY COULD CONFIRM THE GEAR DOWN. ON THE LOW APCH; TWR SAID THE L MAIN GEAR DID NOT COME DOWN. I THEN LEFT THE PATTERN TO HOLD OVER THE WATER DIRECTLY OFF THE ARPT AND RECYCLED THE GEAR SEVERAL TIMES WITH THE ELECTRIC GEAR SWITCH. EACH TIME I CYCLED THE GEAR I RECEIVED A GREEN DOWN AND LOCKED LIGHT. I REQUESTED AND WAS GRANTED ANOTHER LOW APCH SO THE TWR COULD VISUALLY CHK THE GEAR EXTENSION. TWR SAID THE GEAR STILL WAS NOT VISIBLE. I HAD A COPY OF THE OPERATOR'S MANUAL FOR THE BE-95 ON BOARD AND REFERENCED THE SECTION REGARDING EMER GEAR EXTENSION. I PERFORMED THE EMER GEAR EXTENSION PROCS AS OUTLINED IN THE MANUAL AND FOUND THAT AFTER PLACING THE GEAR HANDLE IN THE DOWN POS; AS PROVIDED IN THE MANUAL; THE HAND CRANK WOULD NOT ROTATE TO THE COUNTER CLOCKWISE POS DUE TO THE GEAR BOX ALREADY OPERATING TO ITS LIMIT OF TRAVEL. I MADE 2 MORE LOW APCHS; RECYCLING THE GEAR AFTER EACH APCH; AND TWR CONFIRMED THAT THE L MAIN GEAR WAS STILL NOT VISIBLE. I WAS THEN VECTORED TO KAHULUI ARPT ON MAUI WHERE I AGAIN MADE 1 MORE ATTEMPT TO RECYCLE THE GEAR AND MAKE A LOW APCH BY MAUI TWR. MAUI TWR CONFIRMED THAT THE L MAIN DID NOT COME DOWN. I FOLLOWED THE PROCS FOR A GEAR UP LNDG IN THE OPERATING HAND BOOK AND LANDED THE ACFT ON RWY 2 WITH ALL GEAR IN THE UP POS. AFTER THE ACFT WAS LIFTED ON A SLING; AN ATTEMPT WAS MADE BY THE OPS CREW AT THE ARPT TO LOWER THE LNDG GEAR. AGAIN; THE R MAIN AND NOSE GEAR EXTENDED; BUT THE L MAIN GEAR WOULD NOT COME DOWN; EVEN WHEN A CROW BAR WAS USED TO PRY ON THE GEAR. MR. XXX; A&P; DISSEMBLED THE L MAIN GEAR ASSEMBLY WHILE THE ACFT WAS SUSPENDED FROM A SLING IN ORDER TO LOWER THE L MAIN GEAR FROM ITS UP POS.