Winter Haven Regional Airport - Gilbert Field (GIF) Safety Profile: Incident History & Data

What happens most

By year

20252 (0 fatal)
20241 (0 fatal)
20232 (1 fatal)
20222 (0 fatal)
20192 (1 fatal)
20181 (0 fatal)
20162 (1 fatal)
20151 (0 fatal)
20124 (1 fatal)
20111 (0 fatal)
20104 (2 fatal)
20092 (0 fatal)
20083 (0 fatal)

By flight phase

Other / unknown11
Landing5
Approach3
Climb3
Maneuvering3
Takeoff2

Notable investigated occurrences

2023-03-07 — JACK BROWNS SEAPLANE BASE INC (4 fatalities) — 0.0 km
2012-10-14 — Airborne Wind Sports XT-912, FLOATPLANES & AMPHIBS (2 fatalities) — 0.0 km
2010-02-25 — Tailwheels ETC, Inc. (2 fatalities) — 0.0 km
2019-02-23 — STOL Aircraft Corp UC-1 (1 fatalities) — 0.0 km
2016-07-22 (1 fatalities) — 0.0 km
2010-08-02 — Duflo Sea Rey, Delmer B. Taylor (1 fatalities) — 0.0 km
2025-12-19 — Alon A-2A — 0.0 km
2025-03-29 — JACK BROWNS SEAPLANE BASE INC — 0.0 km
2024-05-25 — Alexander Schleicher ASH 31 — 0.0 km
2023-07-22 — 0.0 km
2022-05-30 — 0.0 km
2022-01-12 — Jack Brown's Seaplane Base, Inc — 0.0 km

Runways

05/23: 5,005 ft, ASP, lighted
11/29: 4,001 ft, ASP

Weather patterns

Fog: 55.153 days/year
Thunderstorms: 107.203 days/year
Snow: 0 days/year
Crosswind >15kt: 0.033% of observations
Crosswind >25kt: 0.001% of observations

Counts reflect occurrences geo-attached within 25 km of the airport from our investigation-record corpus; they are not a complete history and are not a safety ranking. A recorded occurrence decades ago says little about operations today.