N900HY is a 2006 Aviat Aircraft A-1B. It is a fixed-wing single-engine aircraft with 2 seats, powered by a Lycoming IO-360-A1D6 rated at 200 horsepower. The registration is active, with the registrant based in Sterling, AK. Its standard airworthiness certificate was issued in Aug 2006. It has been registered to its current owner since Jan 2026. This page also carries 1 NTSB event.
- 20 years old
- 1 of 367 Aviat Aircraft A-1B
2026
2006
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The pilot reported that he was flying low-level over various remote gravel bars looking for a suitable one to land on. During a low pass over a gravel bar, the airplane’s tailwheel impacted an area of rough, uneven terrain, which pivoted the nose of the airplane down, resulting in a hard, inadvertent landing. The main landing gear wheels subsequently impacted a 3 ft high gravel berm, and the main landing gear collapsed resulting in substantial damage to the fuselage and left wing lift struts.
A postaccident examination of the landing gear by the NTSB investigator-in-charge revealed all fractures in the landing gear were from overload forces from the hard landing.
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