- Date
- May 8, 2026, 08:55 local (16:55 UTC)
- Place
- Anchorage, AK · On airport
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N115UDouglas DC3C
- Defining event
- Taxi: Ground collision
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Investigation ongoing
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20260508005109A
- Case key
- 202972
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.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N115U
- Reported as
- Douglas DC3C
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 33567
- Built
- 1944
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 135
- Operator
- Desert Air Transport Inc.
- Registered owner
- Basler Turbo Conversions LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Airport
- ANC · Anchorage International Airport
- Equipment
- ADS-B
N115URegistered now · Douglas DC3CAirframe modelDouglas DC3CEngine modelPratt & Whitney R-1830 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
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 6,500 ft broken
- Temperature
- 39 °F, dew point 34 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.79 inHg
- Observed at
- PANC, 2 nm away
- METAR
- METAR PANC 081653Z VRB06KT 10SM FEW030 BKN065 BKN110 04/01 A2979 RMK AO2 SLP089 SH DSNT N T00440006
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.