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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper J3C-65 · Rockford, IL · July 7, 1978

Date
July 7, 1978 · 11:50 local
Place
Rockford, IL
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Ops On Grnd From Ldg/Rtrcrft
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N87831
Reported as
Piper J3C65
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
700 total250 in this make and model0 in the last 90 days

From the FAA’s Accident/Incident Data System (AIDS), through its Aviation Safety Information Portal, as reported. The NTSB investigates accidents separately, and its record of an accident is the fuller one. The aircraft is matched to the registry by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

What happened

The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.

Aircraft taxiied behind a turboprop which was running up on the taxiway, resulting in wing tip striking taxiway.

As the FAA filed it

AIRCRAFT TAXIIED BEHIND A TURBOPROP WHICH WAS RUNNING UP ON THE TAXIWAY, RESULTING IN WING TIP STRIKING TAXIWAY.