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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA18A · Talkeetna, AK · September 11, 1981

Date
September 11, 1981 · 14:00 local
Place
Talkeetna, AK
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N2583A
Reported as
Piper PA18A
Reported engine
Lycoming O320*
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
600 total300 in this make and model150 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.

Pilot landed aircraft on unimproved strip, hit a rut and bent the strut and gear leg.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT LANDED AIRCRAFT ON UNIMPROVED STRIP, HIT A RUT AND BENT THE STRUT AND GEAR LEG.