- Date
- September 1, 2026, 14:00 local (22:00 UTC)
- Place
- Copper Center, AK · Richardson Highway - MP 46
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N4542EChampion 7DC
- Defining event
- Taxi-from runway: 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
- Case key
- 203711
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
- N4542E
- Reported as
- Champion 7DC
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 7DC-144
- Airframe hours
- 3,790.1
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 1, 2026 · 35 hours before
- Departed
- Palmer, AK
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- NONE · Highway
- Equipment
- Electronic flight bag or handheld device, Handheld GPS, 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
- 90° at 18 knots, gusting 26
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 66 °F, dew point 34 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.71 inHg
- Turbulence
- Moderate
- Observed at
- PAVD, 29 nm away
- METAR
- METAR PAVD 012156Z 09018G26KT 10SM CLR 19/01 A2971 RMK AO2 PK WND 09028/2144 SLP058 T01890006 $
Other investigations on N4542E · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.