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Incident

FAA incident report · Piper PA-20 · Leesburg, VA · February 20, 1983

Date
February 20, 1983 · 13:30 local
Place
Leesburg, VA
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft
N7823B
Reported as
Piper PA20
Reported engine
Lycoming O290D2
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
230 total70 in this make and model15 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 drifted left on rollout. Left wheel ran off runway. Contacted snow. Ground looped.

As the FAA filed it

AIRCRAFT DRIFTED LEFT ON ROLLOUT. LEFT WHEEL RAN OFF RUNWAY. CONTACTED SNOW. GROUND LOOPED.