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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-17 · Farmville, VA · August 11, 2011

Date
August 11, 2011 · 11:25 local
Place
Farmville, VA
Airport
Farmville Regional
Phase of flight
Landing: Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N5004H
Reported as
Piper PA-17
Reported engine
Continental A&C75 series
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Private pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
420 total18 in this make and model30 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.

Pilot was landing on rwy 21 at Farmville Regional Airport and ground looped the aircraft with a light crosswind of 3 KTS. The aircraft was fast on final, hit hard enough to bounce then ground looped to the right resulting in damage to the the right main landing gear, prop and right wing tip.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT WAS LANDING ON RWY 21 AT FARMVILLE REGIONAL AIRPORT AND GROUND LOOPED THE AIRCRAFT WITH A LIGHT CROSSWIND OF 3 KTS. THE AIRCRAFT WAS FAST ON FINAL, HIT HARD ENOUGH TO BOUNCE THEN GROUND LOOPED TO THE RIGHT RESULTING IN DAMAGE TO THE THE RIGHT MAIN LANDING GEAR, PROP AND RIGHT WING TIP.