- Date
- September 11, 2026, 15:00 local (23:00 UTC)
- Place
- Ninilchik, AK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N22619Taylorcraft BL-65
- Defining event
- Landing: Landing gear collapse
- 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
- 20260911012459A
- Case key
- 203812
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
- N22619
- Reported as
- Taylorcraft BL-65
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1267
- Built
- 1939
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- Ena, AK
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- NONE · Caribou Hills
N22619Registered now · Taylorcraft BL-65Airframe modelTaylorcraft BL-65Engine modelLycoming 0-145B 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
- Wind
- 230° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 1.25 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 500 ft broken
- Temperature
- 52 °F, dew point 48 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.34 inHg
- Observed at
- PAHO, 24 nm away
- METAR
- METAR PAHO 112253Z AUTO 23008KT 1 1/4SM BR FEW001 BKN005 11/09 A3034 RMK AO2 VIS 1/2V3 SLP273 T01060094 TSNO $
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.