# Incident 19780214006579I: Gulstm AA5, St Petersburg, FL, February 14, 1978

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: February 14, 1978, 21:58 local time
- Place: St Petersburg, FL
- Airport: Albert Whitted
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 27.7651° N, 82.6269° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at ALBERT WHITTED (SPG), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=27.7651&lon=-82.6269&mi=10
- Aircraft: N9956U, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N9956U-2001-01-12) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Grumman American Avn. AA-5A (registry code 3960106, https://openairdocs.org/model/grumman-american-avn-aa-5a) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: GULSTM AA5
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 270 total, 28 in this make and model, 0 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19780214006579I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

PILOT LANDED LONG AND FAST. PILOT TURNED ONTO GRASS TO AVOID GOING OFF THE RUNWAY END AND SEAWALL.

## Other reports on N9956U (1)

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.

- [Accident 19981029030919A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19981029030919A), Oct 29, 1998: Gulstm AA5A (N9956U), Scott, AR, Substantial damage. Acft lost engine power and made an emergency landing in a bean field. (-23) on October 29, 1998, at approximately 099-0930, a gruman asaa, N9956U, registered…

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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