- Date
- July 20, 2026, 10:15 local (17:15 UTC)
- Place
- Metaline Falls, WA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N76GCGrumman American Avn. AA-5A
- Defining event
- Landing-aborted after touchdown: Ground collision
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Investigation ongoing
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20260720008079A
- Case key
- 203439
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N76GC
- Reported as
- Grumman American Avn. AA-5A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- AA5A-0107
- Built
- 1976
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- 09S · Sullivan Lake State
N76GCRegistered now · Grumman American Avn. AA-5AAirframe modelGrumman American Avn. AA-5AEngine modelLycoming 0-320 series
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 280° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 52 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.08 inHg
- Observed at
- K63S, 30 nm away
- METAR
- METAR K63S 201715Z 28004KT 10SM CLR 24/11 A3008 RMK A01 PILOT CONTRLD LGHTING OUT OF SERVC- NOTAM 63S07/115. LIGHTS AVABL BY PRE-ARRNGMT
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.