# Incident 20250120000629I: Piper PA-24-400, Georgetown, TX, January 20, 2025

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: January 20, 2025, 13:00 local time
- Place: Georgetown, TX
- Airport: Georgetown Municipal
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Landing: Touchdown
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 30.6327° N, 97.6772° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Georgetown, TX, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=30.6327&lon=-97.6772&mi=10
- Aircraft: N8511P, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N8511P) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Piper PA-24-400 (registry code 7102408, https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-24-400) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Lycoming 0-540 series (registry code 41532, https://openairdocs.org/engine/lycoming-0-540-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA-24-400
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Commercial pilot
- Pilot flight hours: 4,018 total
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20250120000629I

## Narrative

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

PIC DEPARTED BAZ IN ROUTE TO GTU. PIC CLIMBED TO 6000 ASL WITH AUTOPILOT STILL OFF. PIC ADJUSTED THE MANUAL OVERHEAD TRIM WHEN HE HEARD A POP IN THE CABIN AND THE AIRCRAFT STARTED TO PULL NOSE DOWN. HE ATTEMPED TO MAKE FURTHER ADJUSTMENTS BUT WAS UNABLE TO MAINTAIN LEVEL ALTITUDE WITH ONE HAND. PIC STATED HE WAS ABLE TO MAINTAIN CONTROL OF THE AIRCRAFT AS LONG AS HE KEPT BOTH HANDS ON THE CONTROL WHEEL. HE CONTACTED AUS TOWER AND DECLARED HIS INTENTION TO GO TO GTU. ON APPROACH TO GTU, HE PUT THE LANDING GEAR LEVER IN THE GEAR DOWN POSITION BUT, GEAR WARNING HORN SOUNDED. HE CONDUCTED A FLYBY WITH GTU TOWER AND IT WAS CONFIRMED THE GEAR WAS NOT EXTEND. PIC WAS UNABLE TO REACH GEAR EMERGENCY EXTEND HANDLE AS HE WAS NOT ABLE TO MAINTAIN CONTROL IF HE MOVED HANDS FROM CONTROL WHEEL. HE LANDED 'GEAR UP' NEXT TO RUNWAY 36. THERE WERE NO INJURIES AND THE AIRCRAFT DAMAGE TO THE AIRCRAFT IS DETERMINED TO BE MINOR.

## Other reports on N8511P (1)

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

- [Incident 20171207022809I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20171207022809I), Dec 7, 2017: Piper PA-24-400 (N8511P), Seymour, TX, Minor damage. December 7, 2017, at approximately 1125 CST, N8511P, a 1965 Piper PA-24-400 made an off field landing near the intersection of county road 2070 and county road…

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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