# SDR 20000828SH029

- Type: Service difficulty report (as reported; unverified)
- Difficulty date: July 2, 2000
- Submitted: August 28, 2000
- Operation: General aviation
- Aircraft: N3488L
- Make and model: Cessna U206B
- Registry model: [Cessna U206B](https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-u206b) (OpenAirDocs)
- Aircraft serial: U2060788
- System (JASC): [3220 · Nose/Tail Landing Gear](https://openairdocs.org/jasc/3220)
- Part: Nut
- Condition: Damaged
- Location: Yoke Nose Gear
- Component: Fork, Piper
- Component part number: PA32206L
- Stage of operation: LD
- How discovered: V
- Nature of condition: O
- Precautionary procedure: O
- FAA source: FAA Service Difficulty Reporting System (https://sdrs.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/sdr/20000828SH029

## Discrepancy

DURING LANDING TOUCHDOWN, THE AIRCRAFT''S NOSE WHEEL DEPARTED AIRCRAFT.   LOCAL PEOPLE, AT THE SITE, FOUND THE NOSE WHEEL AND ATTACHMENT BOLT ALONG WITH OTHER ATTACHMENT HARDWARE.  (THE AN6-58A NOSE WHEEL BOLT REVEALS NO SIGNS TO THREAD DAMAGE.  ADDITIONALLY, IN THE HARDWARE FOUND AT THE SITE, IS AN AN363-6 SELF-LOCKING NUT, ALTHOUGH THERE IS NO WAY TO POSITIVELY IDENTIFY THIS NUT AS THE ACTUAL ONE THAT WAS INSTALLED ON THE NOSE WHEEL BOLT; BUT IT MAY HAVE BEEN.  NOTE:  THE NUT IS EASILY INSTALLED BY HAND ONTO THE BOLT TO WHERE THE NUT IS FLUSH WITH END OF THE BOLT.  (X)

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