# Incident 20141017019559I: Cessna R182, Prescott, AZ, October 17, 2014

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: October 17, 2014, 12:37 local time
- Place: Prescott, AZ
- Airport: Ernest A. Love Field
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Landing: Approach
- Operating rules: Pilot school (Part 141)
- Operator: EHXS
- Location: 34.5400° N, 112.4685° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Prescott, AZ, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=34.5400&lon=-112.4685&mi=10
- Aircraft: N1724R, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N1724R) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Cessna R182 (registry code 2072734, https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-r182) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA R182
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Commercial pilot, flight instructor, private pilot
- Pilot flight hours: 750 total, 76 in this make and model, 155 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20141017019559I

## Narrative

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

WHILE CONDUCTING APPROACH AND LANDING PROCEDURES INTO PRESCOTT AIRPORT, PILOT INITIATED THE DOWN SELECTOR SWITCH FOR THE LANDING GEAR PRIOR TO ENTERING BASE. DURING APPROACH THE PILOT NOTICED THE DOWN AND LOCKED INDICATORS FOR THE MAIN LANDING GEAR WERE ILLUMINATED HOWEVER NOT THE NOSE GEAR. PILOT MADE A COUPLE OF ATTEMPTS TO RETRACT AND LOWER THE NOSE GEAR HOWEVER FAILED TO GET A DOWN AND LOCKED NOSE GEAR INDICATION.

THE PILOT REQUESTED ASSISTANCE FROM ATC TO VERIFY IF HE HAD A NOSE GEAR EXTENSION PROBLEM.  ATC ASSISTED THE PILOT AND VERIFIED THAT THE NOSE WHEEL WAS PARTIALLY EXTENDED. ACCORDING TO THE PILOT HE DECIDED TO CONTINUE TO FLY THE AIRCRAFT FOR APPROXIMATELY AN HOUR AND THEN DECIDED TO LAND THE AIRCRAFT ON RUNWAY 3 RIGHT.  DURING LANDING THE AIRCRAFT THE PILOT KEPT A NOSE UP ATTITUDE AS LONG AS HE COULD SHUTTING THE ENGINE OFF. PRIOR TO THE AIRCRAFT NOSING OVER AND COMING TO A FULL STOP, THE INITIAL CONTACT OF THE NOSE WHEEL ONTO THE RUNWAY CAUSED THE WHEEL AND TIRE ASSEMBLY TO BE EJECTED AWAY FROM THE AIRCRAFT.   NO INJURIES WERE INCURRED.  WHEEL AND TIRE ASSEMBLY WAS RECOVERED AT THE SCENE HOWEVER THE LANDING GEAR ATTACHMENT BOLT FOR NOSE WHEEL ASSEMBLY MISSING AND HAS NOT BEEN FOUND.

## Other reports on N1724R (2)

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

- [Incident 20170928016579I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20170928016579I), Sep 28, 2017: Cessna R182 (N1724R), Prescott, AZ, Minor damage. Incident occurred during a training flight at kprc, including conducting power off 180S, a landing maneuver that involves power idle from pattern altitude to…
- [Incident 20130723014079I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20130723014079I), Jul 23, 2013: Cessna R182 (N1724R), Prescott, AZ, Minor damage. At 6:20 a.m. on July 23rd, 2013, N1724R was performing touch and go's at Ernest A. Love Field in Prescott, AZ on runway 21L, when the nose gear collapsed. The…

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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