# Incident 19890319023889I: Cessna 172P, Old Town, ME, March 19, 1989

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: March 19, 1989, 14:30 local time
- Place: Old Town, ME
- Airport: Dewitt Fld,Old Town Municipal Airport
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 44.9523° N, 68.6745° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at DEWITT FLD/OLD TOWN MUNI (OLD), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=44.9523&lon=-68.6745&mi=10
- Aircraft: N54759, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N54759-1990-09-14) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Cessna 172P (registry code 2072436, https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-172p) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 172P
- Reported engine: LYC O320*
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 290 total, 120 in this make and model, 3 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19890319023889I

## Narrative

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

BLOWN OFF ACTIVE RUNWAY ALIGNMENT. ELECTED TO LAND ON UNPLOWED CLOSED RUNWAY. HIT SNOWBANK AT RUNWAY INTERSECTION.

## Other reports on N54759 (1)

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

- [Accident 19860926082039A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19860926082039A), Sep 26, 1986: Cessna 172P (N54759), Live Oak, FL, Substantial damage. The student landed long and the aircraft departed the end of the wet 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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