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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Bellanca 17-30A · Henning, MN · June 30, 2026

Date
June 30, 2026 · 19:15 local
Place
Henning, MN
Airport
Wadena Municipal
Phase of flight
Landing: Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N28085
Reported as
Bellanca 17-30A
Reported engine
Continental IO-520 series
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificates
Airline transport, flight instructor
Pilot’s flight hours
6,000 total15 in this make and model10 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.

The PIC stated that a wind gust interrupted a normal landing, resulting in a hard landing and minor damage to the aircraft.

As the FAA filed it

THE PIC STATED THAT A WIND GUST INTERRUPTED A NORMAL LANDING, RESULTING IN A HARD LANDING AND MINOR DAMAGE TO THE AIRCRAFT.

Other reports on N28085 · 2

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