# Incident 20051104029669I: Blanca 1730A, Covington, GA, November 4, 2005

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: November 4, 2005, 14:45 local time
- Place: Covington, GA
- Airport: Covington Municipal Airport
- Damage: Substantial damage
- Phase of flight: Level Off Touchdown
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 33.6322° N, 83.8466° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at COVINGTON MUNI (CVC), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=33.6322&lon=-83.8466&mi=10
- Aircraft: N8260R, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N8260R-2017-02-22) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Bellanca 17-30A (registry code 1220433, https://openairdocs.org/model/bellanca-17-30a) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Continental IO-520 series (registry code 17032, https://openairdocs.org/engine/continental-io-520-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: BLANCA 1730A
- Reported engine: CONT IO520*
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Student
- Pilot flight hours: 41 total, 12 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/20051104029669I

## Narrative

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

(-23) STUDENT PILOT PRACTICING FULL STOP LANDINGS. COMING IN ON RUNWAY 28 AT COVINGTON AIRPORT. UPON LANDING AIRCRAFT MADE SHARP TURN TO LEFT. AIRCRAFT DEPARTED RUNWAY AND RAN INTO THE ADJACENT LAKE.

## Other reports on N8260R (1)

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

- [Accident 20070915023459A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20070915023459A), Sep 15, 2007: Blanca 1730A (N8260R), Dallas, GA, Destroyed, 1 fatal. (-23) Departed kctj (west carrollton regional airport) VFR at 1415L accompanied by another aircraft enroute to kryy (mccollum-cobb county airport). About 10…

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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