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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-28-181 · Decatur, AL · February 27, 2026

Date
February 27, 2026 · 10:00 local
Place
Decatur, AL
Airport
Pryor Field Regional
Phase of flight
Taxi
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Collision
Collision on the ground
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N8068J
Reported as
Piper PA-28-181
Reported engine
Lycoming O&VO-360 series
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Student
Pilot’s flight hours
21 total21 in this make and model9 in the last 90 days

From the FAA’s Accident/Incident Data System (AIDS), through its Aviation Safety Information Portal, as reported. The NTSB investigates accidents separately, and its record of an accident is the fuller one. The aircraft is matched to the registry 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.

What happened

The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.

Pilot taxied privacy data omitted into privacy data omitted with the intent to fly. Reported no damage to privacy data omitted and minor damage to privacy data omitted. No injuries reported.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT TAXIED ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ INTO ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ WITH THE INTENT TO FLY. REPORTED NO DAMAGE TO ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ AND MINOR DAMAGE TO ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^. NO INJURIES REPORTED.

Other reports on N8068J · 2

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