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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-18-150 · Enterprise, OR · July 6, 1997

Date
July 6, 1997 · 14:00 local
Place
Enterprise, OR
Airport
Reds Wallowa Horse Ranch Airport
Phase of flight
Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N63803
Reported as
Piper PA18150
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
7,700 total700 in this make and model35 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.

Narrative: aircraft taxiing after landing, nosed over in small drainage ditch, covered with 2 foot tall grass. Damage was to leading edge of left wing tip fairing, a broken upper window assembly (top deck) and support channel, slight wrinkling to wing root fairing (lower) both sides of cabin, and a slight bend to one engine mount tube on lower left side.

As the FAA filed it

NARRATIVE: AIRCRAFT TAXIING AFTER LANDING, NOSED OVER IN SMALL DRAINAGE DITCH, COVERED WITH 2 FOOT TALL GRASS. DAMAGE WAS TO LEADING EDGE OF LEFT WING TIP FAIRING, A BROKEN UPPER WINDOW ASSEMBLY (TOP DECK) AND SUPPORT CHANNEL, SLIGHT WRINKLING TO WING ROOT FAIRING (LOWER) BOTH SIDES OF CABIN, AND A SLIGHT BEND TO ONE ENGINE MOUNT TUBE ON LOWER LEFT SIDE.