- Date
- July 27, 2025, 22:16 local (Jul 28, 2025, 02:16 UTC)
- Place
- Stanwood, MI
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N627WTCirrus SR22
- Defining event
- Landing: Wildlife encounter (non-bird)
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night
- Status
- Completed · report October 9, 2025
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA FSDO
- FAA report
- 20250727010899A
- Case key
- 200653
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Probable cause
The collision with a deer during takeoff.
Findings · 2
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
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.
Analysis
During a night takeoff from the turf runway, the airplane collided with a deer. The pilot experienced controllability problems while trying to land and elected to perform a no-flap landing. The airplane landed without further incident. Postaccident examination of the airplane revealed damage to the left flap and substantial damage to the left elevator. A review of the airport directory found a remark to alert pilots to deer on and in the vicinity of the airport. A search of the FAA’s Wildlife Strike Database did not find any previously reported wildlife strikes at the accident airport.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N627WT
- Reported as
- Cirrus SR22 (T)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 9793
- Built
- 2024
- Airframe hours
- 390.7
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-550-K, 315 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- N627wt LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 20, 2024
- Departed
- 0C5 · Stanwood, MI
- Destination
- 13C · Lakeview, MI
- Airport
- 0C5 · Canadian Lakes, runway 36, 3,800 × 100 ft, grass/turf
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, Video recording device, ADS-B, Airframe parachute, Angle of attack indicator, Auto-pilot, Data recorder, Electronic flight bag or handheld device, Electronic multifunction display, Electronic primary flight display, Onboard weather, Satellite tracking device
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.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 44
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- February 9, 2024
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 1,028.6 total · 943.8 in this make and model · 832 as pilot in command · 82 in the last 90 days · 23.4 in the last 30 days · 3.6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 73 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.06 inHg
- Observed at
- KRQB, 13 nm away
- METAR
- KRQB 280215Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 24/23 A3006 RMK AO2 T02420226
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on October 9, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 3.6 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.