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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Sullivan Randy C SULLIVAN RV-7 · Arlington, TX · December 20, 2020

Date
December 20, 2020 · 20:06 local
Place
Arlington, TX
Phase of flight
Ground/Ramp/Ma
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N627RS
Reported as
Sullivan Randy C Sullivan RV-7
Reported engine
Lycoming YIO-390 series
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Private pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
350 total204 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.

On December 20, 2020, privacy data omitted ran into a hangar after inadvertently starting and jumping the chocks during a maintenance runup. The pilot was outside the aircraft with no passengers and no injuries.

As the FAA filed it

ON DECEMBER 20, 2020, ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ RAN INTO A HANGAR AFTER INADVERTENTLY STARTING AND JUMPING THE CHOCKS DURING A MAINTENANCE RUNUP. THE PILOT WAS OUTSIDE THE AIRCRAFT WITH NO PASSENGERS AND NO INJURIES.