Cessna 180 Skywagon
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 300; Flight Crew Total 11000; Flight Crew Type 250
Situational Awareness
Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural FAR; Ground Event / Encounter Loss Of Aircraft Control; Ground Event / Encounter Object; Ground Excursion Runway; Inflight Event / Encounter Object
Aircraft Aircraft Damaged; Flight Crew Rejected Takeoff; Flight Crew Returned To Gate; General Maintenance Action
Airport; Human Factors; Weather
During initial takeoff on skis; left ski contacted bare subsurface of the runway causing a turn which resulted in a collision with a hangar building. The runway was marginal condition; but I had developed a mitigation plan by selecting a line that provided adequate conditions for ski operation. The use of wheel ski gear would have provided a greater margin of error and further mitigation of factors.A flight plan and briefing previously indicated no NOTAMs or hazards. Further information was to be garnered enroute as soon as contact with flight service was available.
During a post event meeting FAA personnel noted a possible record keeping error. During the normal course of inspection aircraft propellers are dressed to relive areas risers. The damaged questioned was the result of an event in April 2016 in which a propeller contacted a hangar structure and not the normal service of the propeller; therefore was not entered into the aircraft prop logbook. Any work performed on the aircraft would have been entered in said log. Unfortunately previous propeller work had been accomplished on a previous propeller and not the current propeller and the timeframe of this work and the install of new propeller mistaken by the pilot operator.
During initial takeoff in a Cessna 180 on skis; left ski contacted bare subsurface of the runway causing a turn which resulted in a collision with a hangar building.