Champion Citabria Undifferentiated
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP); Flight Crew Flight Instructor; Flight Crew Multiengine; Flight Crew Instrument
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 100; Flight Crew Total 1400; Flight Crew Type 40
Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe
Aircraft Aircraft Damaged; Flight Crew Overcame Equipment Problem; General Flight Cancelled / Delayed; General Maintenance Action
Aircraft
Upon first landing with student; tail wheel leaf spring broke. I was able to lift the tail with aircraft thrust and control the aircraft to taxi off of the runway to a taxiway where the aircraft was towed to the hanger using a tug. The landing was not a hard landing. The aircraft only has around 120 flight hours since new.
Citabria Flight Instructor reported that the tail wheel leaf spring broke during landing.