- Date
- May 31, 2026, 13:00 local (21:00 UTC)
- Place
- Steele Creek, AK · Fairbank airport
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N2821QCessna A185F
- Defining event
- Takeoff: Loss of control on ground
- 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
- 20260531006549A
- Case key
- 203176
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. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2821Q
- Reported as
- Cessna A185F
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18503533
- Built
- 1977
- Airframe hours
- 5,254.6
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Richard Hattan
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 7, 2026 · 22 hours before
- Departed
- FAI · Fairbanks, AK
- Airport
- na · remote
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, ADS-B
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
- Wind
- Variable at 15 knots, gusting 15
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 55 °F
- Turbulence
- Light
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.