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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Grumman American Avn. AA-5B · Hartford Braina, CT · July 5, 2015

Date
July 5, 2015 · 12:59 local
Place
Hartford Braina, CT
Airport
Brainard
Phase of flight
Landing: Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N4534L
Reported as
Grumman American Avn. AA-5B
Reported engine
Lycoming O&VO-360 series
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Private pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
450 total8 in this make and model33 in the last 90 days

From the FAA’s Accident/Incident Data System (AIDS), through its Aviation Safety Information Portal, as reported. The NTSB investigates accidents separately, and its record of an accident is the fuller one. The aircraft is matched to the registry 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.

What happened

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

Pilot had just purchased aircraft in Tennessee and while on flight to home base in Connecticut on initial landing pilot had prop strike and landed long leaving hard surface of the runway. Inspected aircraft and damage isolated to propeller and engine only.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT HAD JUST PURCHASED AIRCRAFT IN TENNESSEE AND WHILE ON FLIGHT TO HOME BASE IN CONNECTICUT ON INITIAL LANDING PILOT HAD PROP STRIKE AND LANDED LONG LEAVING HARD SURFACE OF THE RUNWAY. INSPECTED AIRCRAFT AND DAMAGE ISOLATED TO PROPELLER AND ENGINE ONLY.