On August 3, 1996, about 0945 Alaska daylight time, a float equipped Sportsman 2+2 amateur built experimental airplane, N5045X, sustained substantial damage when it collided with trees shortly after takeoff from a private airstrip near Wasilla, Alaska. The solo airline transport certificated pilot was not injured. The local, 14 CFR Part 91 flight operated in visual meteorological conditions without a flight plan. During a telephone conversation with the NTSB investigator-in-charge on August 4, the pilot said that soon after liftoff from Shaw's Tri Lakes, he saw a wheel equipped airplane taking off from the adjacent airstrip. He said that collision with the other airplane wasn't an issue, but that he elected to skid the airplane to the left to add greater separation. He said after he kicked the airplane to the left, it quit flying and stalled into the trees.