On 2nd September 1968 the pilot of this aircraft was making a landing on a wet private airstrip in Harwood Dale towards the eastern side of the North Yorkshire Moors. As he approached it became apparant that an obsticle was on the grass strip on the part of the strip he selected to land on, the aircraft touched down past object this but then had only a 250 yard area in which to come to a halt although a further 200 yards were available but this meant a turn of 30 degrees on landing and because of the wet grass this turn was unable to be made. The pilot could not stop the aircraft with his brakes by the end of the 250 yard stretch and as a result it over-ran into a ditch damaging it substantially,
Pilot - Name unknown.
This Piper aircraft was built by the Piper Aircraft Corporation and first registered in the USA in 1966 as N9027P. It was purchased by a UK owner (name unknown) and allocated the serial G-AVKH but this was not taken up and it was reallocated G-AVGA on 31st January 1967. It suffered this Cat.3/FA accident at Harewood Dale on 2nd September 1968 and was repaired. The aircraft is still flying today. I thank its owner for contacting me in 2010.