# Incident 20260225003079I: Cirrus Design Corp SR20, Kingman, AZ, February 25, 2026

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: February 25, 2026, 13:36 local time
- Place: Kingman, AZ
- Airport: Kingman Airport
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Landing: Touchdown
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 35.2595° N, 113.9381° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at KINGMAN (IGM), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=35.2595&lon=-113.9381&mi=10
- Aircraft: N468BB, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N468BB) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Cirrus Design SR20 (registry code 2130000, https://openairdocs.org/model/cirrus-design-sr20) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Continental IO-360 series (registry code 17025, https://openairdocs.org/engine/continental-io-360-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CIRRUS DESIGN CORP SR20
- Reported engine: CONT MOTOR IO-360 SER
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Student
- Pilot flight hours: 129 total, 129 in this make and model, 17 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20260225003079I

## Narrative

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

PILOT NARRATIVE:

THE INCIDENT OCCURRED DURING A SOLO CROSS-COUNTRY FLIGHT CONDUCTED AS PART OF MY FLIGHT TRAINING TOWARD OBTAINING A PRIVATE PILOT CERTIFICATE.

THE FLIGHT ORIGINATED FROM BOULDER CITY AIRPORT (KBVU) WITH AN INTERMEDIATE STOP AT LAKE HAVASU CITY AIRPORT (KHII). AFTER DEPARTING LAKE HAVASU CITY EN ROUTE TO KINGMAN AIRPORT (KIGM), THE AIRCRAFT WAS CRUISING AT APPROXIMATELY 5,500 FEET MSL WHEN THE OIL ANNUNCIATOR LIGHT ILLUMINATED. OIL TEMPERATURE REMAINED WITHIN THE NORMAL RANGE; HOWEVER, THE OIL PRESSURE INDICATION DROPPED RAPIDLY TO APPROXIMATELY 8 PSI.

I IMMEDIATELY TOOK A PHOTOGRAPH OF THE INSTRUMENT INDICATION AND CONTACTED MY FLIGHT INSTRUCTOR BY PHONE. HE ASKED WHETHER THE ENGINE WAS RUNNING ROUGH, AND I INFORMED HIM THAT IT WAS OPERATING NORMALLY AT THAT TIME. I WAS APPROXIMATELY 30 NAUTICAL MILES FROM KINGMAN AIRPORT AND BEGAN CLIMBING IN ORDER TO INCREASE ALTITUDE IN THE EVENT THAT A PARACHUTE DEPLOYMENT BECAME NECESSARY.

AT APPROXIMATELY 10 NAUTICAL MILES SOUTH OF KINGMAN AIRPORT, THE ENGINE BEGAN RUNNING ROUGHLY AND THE AIRCRAFT BEGAN TO VIBRATE. THE RUNWAY WAS IN SIGHT, AND I CONTINUED TOWARD THE AIRPORT AND WAS ABLE TO ENTER THE TRAFFIC PATTERN NORMALLY.

THE AIRCRAFT LANDED SAFELY ON RUNWAY 17 AT KINGMAN AIRPORT. SHORTLY AFTER EXITING THE RUNWAY WHILE TAXIING, THE ENGINE SEIZED COMPLETELY. I SHUT DOWN THE AIRCRAFT AND SOUGHT ASSISTANCE FROM A NEARBY MECHANIC WHO WAS WORKING IN A HANGAR ON THE FIELD. THE AIRCRAFT WAS PUSHED TO A TIE-DOWN LOCATION NEAR THE HANGAR. UPON OPENING THE OIL ACCESS DOOR, IT WAS OBSERVED THAT THE ENGINE HAD SUSTAINED SEVERE INTERNAL DAMAGE.

A POST-INCIDENT INSPECTION BY A MECHANIC INDICATED THAT A FAILURE OF THE NOSE GEAR SHOCK ASSEMBLY RESULTED IN THE ENGINE OIL FILTER BEING BREACHED, CAUSING RAPID OIL LOSS AND SUBSEQUENT ENGINE FAILURE. THE AIRCRAFT SUSTAINED SUBSTANTIAL ENGINE DAMAGE AND WAS REMOVED FROM SERVICE PENDING FURTHER INSPECTION AND REPAIR.

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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