Narrative:

Upon completion of a night cross country with my student; we fueled our aircraft at the self-serve fuel pumps. We then began our taxi back to the hangar. During the taxi we had our rotating beacon; position; and anti-collision lights as well as landing and taxi lights on; and observed no radio calls on CTAF frequency nor did we see any other aircraft operating on the taxiway or other movement areas. As we were approaching the hangar while on the taxiway centerline; we were forced to take evasive action. We swerved the aircraft to the far right side of the taxiway to narrowly avoid a cessna 172 which was being moved by hand and was on a portion of the taxiway. The aircraft had no rotating beacon; navigation/position; strobes or landing lights on at the time and only became visible to me and my student at the last possible second.upon completion of securing our aircraft; I was confronted by the persons whom were moving the cessna. They told me that my student and I came within about a foot of striking their aircraft and telling me that it was my fault. I commented back that they are supposed to give way to an aircraft being operated under its own power; and they should have at a minimum the position lights on; if they are going to be moving an aircraft on or close to the movement area/taxiway at night; as we did not see them until it was almost too late. I also told them that we were taxiing on the taxiway centerline provided; which is supposed to give us wingtip clearance; which is especially critical at night; as forward; side visibility is drastically reduced at night. They left the confrontation without myself or my student feeling as though the matter was understood from both sides.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: C172 Instructor reported a near collision occurred during taxi at a non-towered airport.

Narrative: Upon completion of a night cross country with my student; we fueled our aircraft at the self-serve fuel pumps. We then began our taxi back to the hangar. During the taxi we had our rotating beacon; position; and anti-collision lights as well as landing and taxi lights on; and observed no radio calls on CTAF frequency nor did we see any other aircraft operating on the taxiway or other movement areas. As we were approaching the hangar while on the taxiway centerline; we were forced to take evasive action. We swerved the aircraft to the far right side of the taxiway to narrowly avoid a Cessna 172 which was being moved by hand and was on a portion of the taxiway. The aircraft had no rotating beacon; navigation/position; strobes or landing lights on at the time and only became visible to me and my student at the last possible second.Upon completion of securing our aircraft; I was confronted by the persons whom were moving the Cessna. They told me that my student and I came within about a foot of striking their aircraft and telling me that it was my fault. I commented back that they are supposed to give way to an aircraft being operated under its own power; and they should have at a minimum the position lights on; if they are going to be moving an aircraft on or close to the movement area/taxiway at night; as we did not see them until it was almost too late. I also told them that we were taxiing on the taxiway centerline provided; which is supposed to give us wingtip clearance; which is especially critical at night; as forward; side visibility is drastically reduced at night. They left the confrontation without myself or my student feeling as though the matter was understood from both sides.

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.