- Date
- August 27, 2026, 08:45 local (13:45 UTC)
- Place
- Conroe, TX
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N128NRAutogyro Cavalon
- 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 FSDO
- FAA report
- 20260827012689A
- Case key
- 203681
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
- N128NR
- Reported as
- Autogyro Cavalon
- Category
- Helicopter
- Serial number
- V00263
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Condition · February 14, 2019 · 282 hours before
- Airport
- CXO · Conroe-North Houston Regional Airport, runway 19, 5,000 × 100 ft, concrete
- Equipment
- 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
- 200° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 77 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.98 inHg
- Icing
- Unknown
- Turbulence
- Unknown
- Observed at
- KCXO
- METAR
- KCXO 271353Z 20007KT 10SM FEW120 28/25 A2998 RMK AO2 LTG DSNT SE RAB06E35 SLP147 P0000 T02780250
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.