# Accident 20250520018519A: Cessna A185F, Talkeetna, AK, May 20, 2025

- Type: FAA accident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: May 20, 2025, 21:40 local time
- Place: Talkeetna, AK
- Damage: Substantial damage
- Phase of flight: Landing: Touchdown
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 62.1489° N, 150.8563° W: From the FAA
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=62.1489&lon=-150.8563&mi=10
- Aircraft: N3308S, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N3308S) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Cessna A185F (registry code 2072821, https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-a185f) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Continental IO-520 series (registry code 17032, https://openairdocs.org/engine/continental-io-520-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA A185F
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Commercial pilot
- Pilot flight hours: 1,631 total, 51 in this make and model, 11 in the last 90 days
- NTSB investigation: [NTSB ANC25LA057](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ANC25LA057) (OpenAirDocs)
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20250520018519A

## Narrative

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

ON OR ABOUT 05/20/2025 AT APPROXIMATELY 2140 HOURS PILOT OF A CE185 ON FLOATS APPROACHED SHULIN LAKE FROM THE NORTH. VFR CONDITIONS PREVAILED AT SHULIN WITH LIGHT RAIN AND GLASSY WATER. ON LANDING PILOT IMPACTED THE LAKE AND BOUNCED. PILOT EXECUTED A GO AROUND AND RETURNED FOR SECOND ATTEMPTED LANDING. SECOND ATTEMPTED LANDING WAS SMOOTH AND DURING DECELERATION, THE AIRCRAFT BECAME INVERTED IN THE WATER. RIGHT HAND FLOAT SHOWED PARTIALLY DETACHED.

## The NTSB's investigation of this event (1)

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

- [NTSB ANC25LA057](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ANC25LA057), May 21, 2025: Cessna A185F (N3308S), Trapper Creek, AK, substantial damage. Probable cause: The pilot’s improper flare while landing on glassy water, which resulted in a hard landing.

## Other reports on N3308S (2)

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

- [Accident 20051023029179A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20051023029179A), Oct 23, 2005: Cessna A185F (N3308S), Skwentna, AK, Substantial damage. (-23) While taxiing for takeoff in 18 inches of powder snow, the left ski struck an unknown object beneath the snow and jerked the aircraft to the left…
- [Accident 19811107072289A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19811107072289A), Nov 7, 1981: Cessna A185F (N3308S), Prescott, AZ, Substantial damage. Pilot lost directional control during landing. Aircraft veered off runway.

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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