# Incident 20110818017719I: Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-5A, Houston, TX, August 18, 2011

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: August 18, 2011, 13:45 local time
- Place: Houston, TX
- Airport: Ellington
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Landing: Touchdown
- Operating rules: Pilot school (Part 141)
- Operator: GR8S
- Location: 29.6073° N, 95.1587° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at ELLINGTON (EFD), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=29.6073&lon=-95.1587&mi=10
- Aircraft: N9745U, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N9745U-2022-07-02) (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: GRUMMAN AMERICAN AVN. CORP. AA-5A
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Student
- Pilot flight hours: 61 total, 61 in this make and model, 11 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20110818017719I

## Narrative

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

STUDENT PILOT TOOK OFF FROM ELLINGTON AIRPORT AT APPROX. 11:30 A. M.  AND PRECEDED TO GLS TO DO SOME TOUCH AND GOES.  UPON TOUCH DOWN (MAINS) AT GLS HE BECAME SUSPICIOUS OF A NOSE GEAR PROBLEM. (FIXED GEAR)  HE GAVE THE AIRCRAFT FULL THROTTLE AND CLIMBED BACK UP.  HE FLEW DIRECT TO PEARLAND REGIONAL AIRPORT WERE HE DID A FLY BY WITH THE TOWER CONFIRMING  HE HAD NO NOSE WHEEL FORK ASSY OR TIRE.  THEY RECOMMENDED HE FLY TO ELLINGTON FIELD WHERE THEY HAVE EMERGENCY EQUIPMENT AND CREWS.  HE MADE AN EMERGENCY LANDING ON RUNWAY 22 (EAST TO WEST).  THE AIRCRAFT SKIDDED ON THE NOSE GEAR STRUT APPROXIMENTLY 350 FEET BEFORE COMING TO A STOP.  NO OTHER DAMAGE TO THE AIRCRAFT. PILOT HAD SHUT DOWN THE ENGINE AT APPROX 100 FEET WITH THE PROPELLER BEING IN THE HORIZONTAL POSITION.  NO PASSENGER AND NO INJURIES.  08/23/2011, FURTHER INVESTIGATION REVEALED THE SPINDLE WHICH IS  BONDED ONTO THE STRUT ASSY (AT MFG) DEBONDED AND SLID OFF OF THE STRUT ASSY WHICH THE SCISSOR ASSY AND TIRE ARE ATTACHED TO .

## Other reports on N9745U (1)

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

- [Incident 20140807017139I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20140807017139I), Aug 7, 2014: Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-5A (N9745U), La Porte, TX, Minor damage. Student was with an instructor performing night landings. The student was attempting a night landing on runway 12 with cross winds out of the south at 10…

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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