GA pilot reported that after takeoff in a PA28R-200 and raising the landing gear; the 'intransit lig...

Narrative:

Taking off; selecting the landing gear handle in the 'up' position the normal 'in transit' light came on and the indicator lights went off indicating a normal operation of the cycle. After approximately 15 seconds from selecting gear up; the 'in transit' light remained on. I then proceeded to recycle the selector to the 'down' position; and in this situation all three indicator lights turned on; showing all three gears were down and locked. The next step I took was to cycle the gear up again; in an attempt to see if the landing gear retracted and the 'in transit' light would go off for a successful gear up cycle. The 'in transit' light remained on; and at this moment I proceeded to drop the gear down again. After selecting gear down; only the left and right main gear indicated down and locked; and the nose gear indicated it was not down and locked along with the 'in transit' light still on.I turned back from my straight out departure and entered the traffic pattern; cycling the gear back and forth between up and down but no luck. I then proceeded to attempt the emergency gear extension as the checklist required. The emergency extension did not work in getting the gear down; which then led me to doing maneuvers by yawing the aircraft left and right as well as giving the aircraft positive G loading in order to get the nose wheel to come down.the whole time I was talking on frequency with an instructor on the field helping me with what to do in order to attempt to make the gear come down. After approximately an hour of circling attempting to get the gear to come down; I proceed to fly back to the airport.I flew the approach as normal; and landed the airplane with only 10 degrees of flaps; on touch down I held the airplane on the main wheels and cut the mixture in order to have minimal damage to the propeller; after the nose hit the airplane skid about 300 feet down the runway; at the point where I exited the airplane. No structural damage on the airplane asides from a prop strike; scraped gear doors; and exhaust pipe scraping the ground.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: GA pilot reported that after takeoff in a PA28R-200 and raising the landing gear; the 'INTRANSIT LIGHT' remained illuminated. After many attempts to lower the gear the pilot landed with the nose landing gear still retracted.

Narrative: Taking off; selecting the landing gear handle in the 'UP' position the normal 'IN TRANSIT' light came on and the indicator lights went off indicating a normal operation of the cycle. After approximately 15 seconds from selecting gear up; the 'IN TRANSIT' light remained on. I then proceeded to recycle the selector to the 'DOWN' position; and in this situation all three indicator lights turned on; showing all three gears were down and locked. The next step I took was to cycle the gear up again; in an attempt to see if the landing gear retracted and the 'IN TRANSIT' light would go off for a successful gear up cycle. The 'IN TRANSIT' light remained on; and at this moment I proceeded to drop the gear down again. After selecting gear down; only the left and right main gear indicated down and locked; and the nose gear indicated it was not down and locked along with the 'IN TRANSIT' light still on.I turned back from my straight out departure and entered the traffic pattern; cycling the gear back and forth between up and down but no luck. I then proceeded to attempt the emergency gear extension as the checklist required. The emergency extension did not work in getting the gear down; which then led me to doing maneuvers by yawing the aircraft left and right as well as giving the aircraft positive G loading in order to get the nose wheel to come down.The whole time I was talking on frequency with an instructor on the field helping me with what to do in order to attempt to make the gear come down. After approximately an hour of circling attempting to get the gear to come down; I proceed to fly back to the airport.I flew the approach as normal; and landed the airplane with only 10 degrees of flaps; on touch down I held the airplane on the main wheels and cut the mixture in order to have minimal damage to the propeller; after the nose hit the airplane skid about 300 feet down the runway; at the point where I exited the airplane. No structural damage on the airplane asides from a prop strike; scraped gear doors; and exhaust pipe scraping the ground.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.

Attributes
ACN	1371816
Time
Date	201607
Local Time Of Day	0601-1200
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	PA-28R Cherokee Arrow All Series
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Initial Climb
Flight Plan	IFR
Component
Aircraft Component	Nose Gear
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying Single Pilot
Qualification	Flight Crew Commercial Flight Crew Instrument
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 30 Flight Crew Total 245 Flight Crew Type 10
Events
Anomaly	Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical Ground Event / Encounter Other / Unknown

GA pilot reported that after takeoff in a PA28R-200 and raising the landing gear; the 'intransit light' remained illuminated. After many attempts to lower the gear the pilot landed with the nose landing gear still retracted.