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Incident · Substantial damage

FAA incident report · Gulstm AA-5 · Aurora, CO · July 27, 1983

Date: July 27, 1983 · 10:30 local
Place: Aurora, CO
Airport: Aurora
Phase of flight: Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Substantial damage
Aircraft: N5832L
Reported as: Gulstm AA5
Reported engine: Lycoming O360*
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 212 total100 in this make and model4 in the last 90 days

N5832LRegistered now · American AA-5S/N AA5-0232 · Built 1972 Airframe modelAmerican AA-5 Engine modelLycoming 0-320 seriesReciprocating

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What happened

The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.

Landed on rough dirt runway. Aircraft bounced hard on ruts and collapsed the nose gear.

As the FAA filed it

LANDED ON ROUGH DIRT RUNWAY. AIRCRAFT BOUNCED HARD ON RUTS AND COLLAPSED THE NOSE GEAR.

Other reports on N5832L · 1

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

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