# Incident 19800127018979I: Gulstm AA1C, Plainfield, IL, January 27, 1980

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: January 27, 1980, 17:30 local time
- Place: Plainfield, IL
- Airport: Clow
- Phase of flight: Practice Training Manuevers
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 41.6294° N, 88.2456° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Plainfield, IL, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=41.6294&lon=-88.2456&mi=10
- Aircraft: N39050, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N39050-1982-10-06) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Grumman American Avn. AA-1C (registry code 3960100, https://openairdocs.org/model/grumman-american-avn-aa-1c) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: GULSTM AA1C
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 1,100 total, 90 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/19800127018979I

## Narrative

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

INSTRUCTOR ELECTED EMERGENCY LANDING. ENGINE RUNNING ROUGH. DURING APPROACH, ENGINE APPEARED TO FUNCTION NORMAL.

## Other reports on N39050 (1)

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

- [Accident 19820702028209A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19820702028209A), Jul 2, 1982: Gulstm AA1C (N39050), West Haven, CT, Substantial damage. Aircraft crashed on coastline during emergency landing after fuel exhaustion.

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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