# Incident 20251209017989I: Piper PA-30, Glendale, AZ, December 9, 2025

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: December 9, 2025, 09:24 local time
- Place: Glendale, AZ
- Airport: Glendale Municipal
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Landing: Rollout
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 33.5269° N, 112.2951° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at GLENDALE RGNL (GEU), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=33.5269&lon=-112.2951&mi=10
- Aircraft: N752CF, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N752CF) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Piper PA-30 (registry code 7103002, https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-30) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Lycoming IO-320 series (registry code 41509, https://openairdocs.org/engine/lycoming-io-320-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA-30
- Reported engine: LYCOMING IO-320 SERIES
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Flight instructor
- Pilot flight hours: 963 total
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20251209017989I

## Narrative

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

THE INSTRUCTOR (PIC) AND STUDENT PILOT ARRIVED AT THE AIRPORT AT APPROXIMATELY 0710 LOCAL TIME. THE INITIAL PORTION OF THE FLIGHT WAS UNEVENTFUL.  THE FLIGHT THEN RETURNED TO KGEU, THE AIRCRAFT REMAINED IN THE TRAFFIC PATTERN TO CONDUCT FULL-STOP, TAXI-BACK LANDINGS. THREE LAPS IN THE PATTERN WERE COMPLETED, DURING WHICH THE INSTRUCTOR NOTED THE STUDENT’S LANDINGS WERE SMOOTH AND THE AIRCRAFT WAS OPERATING NORMALLY WITH NO ANOMALIES OBSERVED.

AFTER TAKEOFF FOR ONE ADDITIONAL LAP IN THE PATTERN, THE STUDENT PILOT SELECTED THE LANDING GEAR LEVER TO THE UP POSITION. THE LANDING GEAR DID NOT RETRACT. THE LANDING GEAR MOTOR CIRCUIT BREAKER HAD TRIPPED AND, WHEN RESET, IMMEDIATELY TRIPPED AGAIN.

THE STUDENT PILOT USED THE MIRROR MOUNTED ON THE LEFT ENGINE COWLING TO VISUALLY CONFIRM THE NOSE LANDING GEAR APPEARED FULLY EXTENDED AND PROVIDED A PHOTOGRAPH OF THE MIRROR VIEW TO THE INSTRUCTOR. THE LANDING GEAR WARNING HORN WAS NOT SOUNDING, AND THE TRANSMISSION UNDER THE FLOORBOARD APPEARED TO BE FULLY FORWARD, INDICATING THE LANDING GEAR WAS DOWN AND LOCKED. HOWEVER, THE ABSENCE OF A GREEN GEAR-DOWN INDICATION LIGHT AND THE REPEATEDLY TRIPPING CIRCUIT BREAKER INDICATED THE SYSTEM WAS NOT CONFIRMING A DOWN-AND-LOCKED CONDITION.

THE PIC ELECTED TO LAND THE AIRCRAFT, BELIEVING THE LANDING GEAR WAS DOWN AND LOCKED. UPON TOUCHDOWN, ALL THREE LANDING GEAR STRUTS SLOWLY COLLAPSED, AND THE AIRCRAFT SKIDDED A SHORT DISTANCE DOWN THE RUNWAY. THE INSTRUCTOR (PIC) DECLARED AN EMERGENCY WITH THE CONTROL TOWER, SHUT OFF THE ENGINE BY PULLING THE MIXTURE CONTROL, AND BOTH PILOTS EXITED THE AIRCRAFT WITHOUT INJURY.

## Other reports on N752CF (2)

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

- [Accident 20021126037459A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20021126037459A), Nov 26, 2002: Piper PA30 (N752CF), Tallahassee, FL, Substantial damage. (-23) On November 26, 2002, at 0630 EDT, a PA-30-30, N752CF registered to security 4 it inc., collided with a hanger door, at Tallahassee regional airport,…
- [Incident 19900923050579I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19900923050579I), Sep 23, 1990: Piper PA30 (N752CF), Cape Girardeau, MO, Minor damage. No gear safe light. Lowered gear manually. Gear collapsed on rollout. Multiple discrepancies in system.

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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