# Incident 20240614008059I: Boeing B-17G, Ashland, VA, June 14, 2024

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: June 14, 2024, 16:30 local time
- Place: Ashland, VA
- Airport: Hanover County Municipal
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Taxi
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 37.7089° N, 77.4366° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at HANOVER COUNTY MUNI (OFP), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=37.7089&lon=-77.4366&mi=10
- Aircraft: N9323Z, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N9323Z) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Boeing B-17G (registry code 1380204, https://openairdocs.org/model/boeing-b-17g) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Wright R-1820 series (registry code 67020, https://openairdocs.org/engine/wright-r-1820-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: BOEING B-17G
- Reported engine: WRIGHT R-1820 SER
- People aboard: 8
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Airline transport
- Pilot flight hours: 19,951 total, 345 in this make and model, 161 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20240614008059I

## Narrative

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

PILOT TAXIED AIRPLANE PAST A KNOWN OBSTRUCTION (BUCKET TRUCK STICKING OUT PAST AIRPORT FENCE INTO TAXI AREA WHICH SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN THERE BUT WAS) AND WAS KNOWN.  RIGHT WING TIP STRUCK BUCKET TRUCK.

THIS WAS THE LAST FLIGHT OUT OF SIX THAT DAY, SO LONG DAY.

IT WAS ABOVE 90 DEGREES THAT DAY.

## Other reports on N9323Z (1)

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

- [Incident 19881110050479I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19881110050479I), Nov 10, 1988: Boeing B17G (N9323Z), Burbank, CA, Minor damage. Unable to stop on runway rolled slowly off end into a fence and dumpster. Brake line came off brake boost unit.

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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