# Incident 20251112017429I: Cessna 177RG, El Cajon, CA, November 12, 2025

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: November 12, 2025, 13:07 local time
- Place: El Cajon, CA
- Airport: Gillespie Field
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Landing: Touchdown
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 32.8262° N, 116.9724° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at GILLESPIE FLD (SEE), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=32.8262&lon=-116.9724&mi=10
- Aircraft: N8200G, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N8200G) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Cessna 177RG (registry code 2073709, https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-177rg) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Lycoming IO-360-A1B6 (registry code 41576, https://openairdocs.org/engine/lycoming-io-360-a1b6) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 177RG
- Reported engine: LYCOMING IO-360-A1B6
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Private pilot, student
- Pilot flight hours: 486 total, 128 in this make and model, 13 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20251112017429I

## Narrative

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

PILOT REPORTED RIGHT AFTER TAKEOFF THE LANDING GEAR DID NOT RETRACT. PILOT THEN CYCLED THE GEAR HANDLE AND THE GEAR RETRACTED NORMALLY. PILOT THEN PERFORMED THREE SUCCESSFUL TOUCH AND GOES WITH NO OTHER PROBLEMS EXCEPT THE GEAR WARNING HORN WAS NOT WORKING. PILOT STATED IN HER NASA REPORT THAT SHE NORMALLY PUTS THE GEAR DOWN ON THE DOWNWIND AND SHE THOUGHT SHE CHECKED FOR IT. SHE REPORTED THAT SHE DOES NOT RECALL RETRACTING THE GEAR OR DOUBLE CHECKING THAT THE GEAR WAS DOWN AND LOCKED. SHE STATED, I WAS EXPECTING A SMOOTH TOUCH AND GO.  THE AIRCRAFT LANDED SMOOTHLY ON ITS BELLY. PILOT ALSO STATED IN HER NASA REPORT, I THOUGHT THE GEAR WAS DOWN AND WAS SURPRISED TO FIND UPON LANDING THAT IT WASN’T.

## Other reports on N8200G (1)

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

- [Accident 20020531037589A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20020531037589A), May 31, 2002: Cessna 177RG (N8200G), Trenton, NJ, Substantial damage. (-23) On may 31, 2002 during take off from runway 24 at Trenton, NJ airport (ttn), after retracting the landing gear at approximately 300 feet of altitude, the…

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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