- Date
- August 29, 2026, 11:15 local (19:15 UTC)
- Place
- Beluga, AK · Remote airstrip
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N15XXPiper PA-18
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Nose over/nose down
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Investigation ongoing
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- Parties
- FAA
- Case key
- 203705
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
- N15XX
- Reported as
- Piper PA-18
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18-811
- Built
- 1951
- Airframe hours
- 5,453
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Timothy Brown
- Registered owner
- Dalks Leasing Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 4, 2026 · 20.4 hours before
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- None · Gravel Strip
- Equipment
- Onboard weather, Electronic primary flight display, 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
- 220° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 55 °F, dew point 48 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.79 inHg
- Observed at
- PANC, 36 nm away
- METAR
- METAR PANC 291853Z 22004KT 10SM FEW010 FEW050 FEW070 FEW130 13/09 A2979 RMK AO2 SLP087 T01330094
Other investigations on N15XX · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.