FAA incident report · Enstrom Helicopter 480 · Chelan, WA · September 30, 2026
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.
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Aircraft was idling on an inclined logging road and slid on the road into side of a hill on the ground damaging tail rotor and boom.
AIRCRAFT WAS IDLING ON AN INCLINED LOGGING ROAD AND SLID ON THE ROAD INTO SIDE OF A HILL ON THE GROUND DAMAGING TAIL ROTOR AND BOOM.