# Incident 19920124000899I: Piper PA28180, Aurora, CO, January 24, 1992

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: January 24, 1992, 16:00 local time
- Place: Aurora, CO
- Airport: Aurora Airport
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Level Off Touchdown
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 39.7294° N, 104.8319° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Aurora, CO, within about 7 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=39.7294&lon=-104.8319&mi=10
- Aircraft: N55114, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N55114-1997-03-06) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Piper PA-28-180 (registry code 7102808, https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-28-180) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA28180
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 169 total, 36 in this make and model, 12 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19920124000899I

## Narrative

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

HARD LANDING DUE TO WIND GUST. IMPROPERLY ALIGNED WITH RUNWAY DUE TO WIND. RIGHT GEAR HIT SNOWBANK, NOSED OVER.

## Other reports on N55114 (1)

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

- [Accident 19950529049039A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19950529049039A), May 29, 1995: Piper PA28180 (N55114), Byers, CO, Destroyed, 4 fatal. (-16) On may 29, 1995, at 2115 MDT, a Piper PA-28-180, N55114, was destroyed following loss of control near Byers, Colorado. The private pilot and his three…

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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