# NTSB CEN25LA379: Pegasus Quantum 15, N36TJ, Bedford, IN, September 13, 2025

- Type: NTSB accident investigation
- Classification: Accident · Serious injuries · Class 3 · Limited · Preliminary report
- Date: September 13, 2025, 16:25 local (20:25 UTC)
- Place: Bedford, IN
- Coordinates: 38.8612, -86.4872 (estimated)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=38.8612&lon=-86.4872&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Approach](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/500) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Defining event: [Approach-VFR go-around: Loss of engine power (total)](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/341)
- Highest injury: Serious injuries
- Injuries: 1 serious
- Status: Investigation ongoing
- Investigation class: Class 3
- NTSB office: Central Region
- Parties: Federal Aviation Administration, Indianapolis FSDO
- NTSB case key (mKey): 201004
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=CEN25LA379
- NTSB preliminary report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/201004/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CEN25LA379

## Preliminary report

On September 13, 2025, at 1625 eastern daylight time, a Pegasus Quantum 15 weight-shift controlled aircraft, N36TJ, sustained substantial damage when it was involved in an accident near Bedford, Indiana. The pilot received serious injuries. The airplane was operated under Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 as a personal flight. The aircraft experienced a total loss of engine power during a go-around attempt and then impacted a soybean field about ¼ mi west of the departure airport. The aircraft sustained substantial damage to the left wing when it impacted the ground. The aircraft was retained for further examination.

## Sequence of events

The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event best describes what happened.

- [Approach-VFR go-around: Loss of engine power (total)](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/341) (defining event); cases with it: [Pegasus QUANTUM 15, 1 case](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/341/sequence.md?model=0590020), [All aircraft, 3,820 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/341/sequence.md)

## Aircraft

- Registration: [N36TJ](https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N36TJ), registered now, S/N 7538, built 1999 (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: PEGASUS QUANTUM 15
- Registry model: [Pegasus QUANTUM 15](https://openairdocs.org/model/pegasus-quantum-15) (registry code 0590020) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: [Rotax 503 series](https://openairdocs.org/engine/rotax-503-series) (registry code 55564, 2 cycle) (OpenAirDocs)
- Category: Weight-shift
- Serial number: 7538
- Year built: 1999
- Damage: Substantial damage
- Flight: Personal, Part 91
- Operator: Pilot
- Registered owner: Pilot
- Airworthiness certificate: Special, Experimental (Special)
- Airport: BFR, Virgil I Grissom Municipal Airport

## Weather

- Conditions: Visual (VMC), Day
- Wind: 160° at 5 knots
- Visibility: 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling: none
- Temperature: 82 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter: 30.00 inHg
- Observed at: BFR, 0.25 nm away

## FAA reports on this event (1)

The FAA's own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date (OpenAirDocs).

- [Accident 20250913020969A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20250913020969A), Sep 13, 2025: Pegasus QUANTUM 15, Bedford, IN, Substantial damage. On September 13, 2025, the subject pilot was taxiing from his hangar to runway 24 at the virgin I. Grissom municipal airport (bfr), Bedford, Indiana. An a&pia…

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

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