# Incident 19800205020709I: Piper PA28R200, Santa Ana, CA, February 5, 1980

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: February 5, 1980, 09:30 local time
- Place: Santa Ana, CA
- Airport: John Wayne
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 33.7368° N, 117.8829° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Santa Ana, CA, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=33.7368&lon=-117.8829&mi=10
- Aircraft: N39718, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N39718) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Piper PA-28R-201T (registry code 7102813, https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-28r-201t) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Continental TSIO-360 series (registry code 17019, https://openairdocs.org/engine/continental-tsio-360-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA28R200
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 550 total, 300 in this make and model, 0 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19800205020709I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

PILOT TAXIED INTO PARKED AIRCRAFT & DID NOT KNOW HE HAD DONE SO. WAS INFORMED BY GROUND CONTROL.

## Other reports on N39718 (1)

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.

- [Incident 19850213015399I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19850213015399I), Feb 13, 1985: Piper PA28R201T (N39718), Palm Springs, CA. While retracting flaps on rollout aircraft veered off runway.

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft 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. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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