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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-23-250 · Lake Wales, FL · November 30, 1978

Date: November 30, 1978 · 19:30 local
Place: Lake Wales, FL
Airport: Municipal
Phase of flight: Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N818CC
Reported as: Piper PA23250
People aboard: 1
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 7,300 total200 in this make and model0 in the last 90 days

N818CCRegistered now · Piper PA-23-250S/N 27-2977 Airframe modelPiper PA-23-250 Engine modelLycoming TI0-540 seriesTurbo-prop

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.

Pilot taxied aircraft into hole while trying to park. Damage to nose gear and prop tips.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT TAXIED AIRCRAFT INTO HOLE WHILE TRYING TO PARK. DAMAGE TO NOSE GEAR AND PROP TIPS.