Pilot reported a near midair collision with a powered parachute while on final approach to Y23.

Attributes
ACN	1749274
Time
Date	202007
Local Time Of Day	1801-2400
Place
Locale Reference	Y23.Airport
State Reference	WI
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Dusk
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Small Aircraft
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Final Approach
Route In Use	Visual Approach
Flight Plan	IFR
Aircraft 2
Make Model Name	Ultralight
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying Single Pilot
Qualification	Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Private
Events
Anomaly	Conflict NMAC
Miss Distance	Horizontal 200 Vertical 100

Narrative:

While landing runway 17 at chetek municipal southworth airport (Y23) at dusk; an unlighted powered parachute; with no lights made a radical and unpredicted turn into the final segment of runway 17. Evasive action was taken to avoid colliding with the powered parachute; a hard left bank and climb was initiated to avoid the unlighted powered parachute at dusk. Powered parachutes tend to fly out of Y23 in the evening time but are always lighted and typically communicate over the multicom.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Pilot reported a NMAC with a powered parachute while on final approach to Y23.

Narrative: While landing Runway 17 at Chetek Municipal Southworth Airport (Y23) at dusk; an unlighted powered parachute; with no lights made a radical and unpredicted turn into the final segment of Runway 17. Evasive action was taken to avoid colliding with the powered parachute; a hard left bank and climb was initiated to avoid the unlighted powered parachute at dusk. Powered parachutes tend to fly out of Y23 in the evening time but are always lighted and typically communicate over the multicom.

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.