# Incident 20030726024159I: Beech V35B, Rockford, IL, July 26, 2003

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: July 26, 2003, 14:00 local time
- Place: Rockford, IL
- Airport: Greater Rockford
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 42.2711° N, 89.0940° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Rockford, IL, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=42.2711&lon=-89.0940&mi=10
- Aircraft: N850T, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N850T) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Beech V35B (registry code 1151548, https://openairdocs.org/model/beech-v35b) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Continental IO-550 series (registry code 17042, https://openairdocs.org/engine/continental-io-550-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: BEECH V35B
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 6,400 total, 6,000 in this make and model, 90 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20030726024159I

## Narrative

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

(-23) PILOT WAS TAXIING IN A FORMATION OF 4 BE-35S AND WAS ON THE OUTSIDE/END OF THE FORMATION. THOUGH THE TAXIWAY WAS PROPERLY PAINTED, THE PILOT WAS NOT EXPECTING TAXIWAY LIGHTS TO BE IMPLANTED IN CONCRETE. HIS EXPERIENCE WAS THAT SUCH LIGHTS WERE IN THE GRASS OUTSIDE OF THE PAVEMENT. THE PROPELLER STRUCK ONE LIGHT.

## Other reports on N850T (1)

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

- [Incident 20070505006069I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20070505006069I), May 5, 2007: Beech V35B (N850T), Whiteboro, TX, Minor damage. (-23) On a pleasure flight, may 5, 2007, at 1130C, landed in a pasture in whitesboro, TX and struck a fence. No injury to pilot, and minor damage to aircraft.

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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