# Incident 20250207001729I: Piper PA-12, Charlottesville, VA, February 7, 2025

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: February 7, 2025, 16:30 local time
- Place: Charlottesville, VA
- Airport: Charlottesville-Albemarle
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Taxi
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 38.1396° N, 78.4523° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at CHARLOTTESVILLE-ALBEMARLE (CHO), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=38.1396&lon=-78.4523&mi=10
- Aircraft: N2913M, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N2913M) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Piper PA-12 (registry code 7101202, https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-12) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Lycoming 0-235 series (registry code 41505, https://openairdocs.org/engine/lycoming-0-235-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA-12
- Reported engine: LYCOMING 0-235 SERIES
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Airline transport, flight instructor
- Pilot flight hours: 22,631 total, 85 in this make and model, 17 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20250207001729I

## Narrative

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

ON 02/07/2025 AT 1630 LOCAL TIME, PILOT  HAD INCIDENT WHERE HE SUFFERED A PROP STRIKE TO HIS PIPER CUB PA-12 CAUSING IT TO TEETER NOSE DOWN ON THE RAMP IN VICINITY OF HOTEL TAXIWAY, ON CHARLOTTESVILLE-ALBEMARLE AIRPORT (KCHO).  INVESTIGATION REVEALED PILOT WAS ATTEMPTING TO AVOID COLLISION WITH ONCOMING AIRCRAFT BY STEPPING ON BRAKES TO STOP HIS CUB PRIOR TO ENTERING A NARROW TAXIWAY. PILOT APPLIED TOO MUCH PRESSURE IN A RAPID MANNER, CAUSING HIS PLANE TO ABRUPTLY STOP.  THE FORWARD MOMENTUM OF THE AIRCRAFT PRIOR TO BRAKE APPLICATION CREATED A TANGENTIAL FORCE WHICH BROUGHT THE NOSE OF THE AIRCRAFT INTO A DOWNWARD ARC ALLOWING THE PROP TO STRIKE THE AGGREGATE ASPHALT.  THE FIRST STRIKING BLADE “DUG IN” TO THE SURFACE MATERIAL BRINGING THE NOSE FORWARD TO A COMPLETE STOP WITH BOTH PROP BLADES STRIKING THE RAMP SURFACE.    PILOT STATED THAT THIS INCIDENT WAS STRICTLY HIS FAULT AND DUE TO HIS ERROR IN NOT HAVING BETTER FEEL FOR THESE NEW HIGH PERFORMANCE BRAKES THAT THE PREVIOUS OWNER HAD INSTALLED ON THE AC.  INVESTIGATION CONCLUDED THE SAME.

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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