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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 172N · Morgantown, WV · September 16, 1988

Date: September 16, 1988 · 16:45 local
Place: Morgantown, WV
Airport: Morgantown Municipal-Walter L Bill
Phase of flight: Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N75838
Reported as: Cessna 172N
People aboard: 1
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 545 total530 in this make and model14 in the last 90 days

N75838Registered now · Cessna 172NS/N 17267993 Airframe modelCessna 172N Engine modelLycoming 0-320 seriesReciprocating

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.

Right wing tip hit a fence while taxiing to ramp. Wing tip and navlight damaged.

As the FAA filed it

RIGHT WING TIP HIT A FENCE WHILE TAXIING TO RAMP. WING TIP AND NAVLIGHT DAMAGED.