19870515038439I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-18 · Soldotna, AK · May 15, 1987

Date
May 15, 1987 · 19:00 local
Place
Soldotna, AK
Phase of flight
Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N7590K
Reported as
Piper PA18
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
1,000 total100 in this make and model100 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.

While avoiding cars parked in the access to taxiway the propeller struck a ceilometer.

As the FAA filed it

WHILE AVOIDING CARS PARKED IN THE ACCESS TO TAXIWAY THE PROPELLER STRUCK A CEILOMETER.