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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · North American NAVION F · Phoenix, AZ · April 23, 2015

Date
April 23, 2015 · 13:50 local
Place
Phoenix, AZ
Airport
Deer Valley
Phase of flight
Landing: Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N947SH
Reported as
North American Navion F
Reported engine
Continental IO-550-R
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Private pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
1,528 total150 in this make and model8 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.

Aircraft cleared to land by tower. Aircraft landed without landing gear in down position making contact with hard surface. Propellor made contact with the hard surface along with the nose gear doors and inboard edges of flaps and flap tracks. Aircraft slid off the hard surface making contact with the left wing tip fuel tank.

As the FAA filed it

AIRCRAFT CLEARED TO LAND BY TOWER. AIRCRAFT LANDED WITHOUT LANDING GEAR IN DOWN POSITION MAKING CONTACT WITH HARD SURFACE. PROPELLOR MADE CONTACT WITH THE HARD SURFACE ALONG WITH THE NOSE GEAR DOORS AND INBOARD EDGES OF FLAPS AND FLAP TRACKS. AIRCRAFT SLID OFF THE HARD SURFACE MAKING CONTACT WITH THE LEFT WING TIP FUEL TANK.