- Date
- January 11, 2026, 16:00 local (22:00 UTC)
- Place
- Early, TX · 31.7795250, -98.9092861
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N85018Aeronca 7AC
- Defining event
- Landing: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Investigation ongoing
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration - Lubbock FSDO
- Case key
- 202284
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
- N85018
- Reported as
- Aeronca 7AC
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 7AC-3743
- Built
- 1946
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- 10XS · Early, TX
- Destination
- 10XS · Early, TX
- Airport
- 10XS · Flying S Air Ranch Airport, runway 17, 2,700 × 75 ft, grass/turf
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 5 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 61 °F, dew point 16 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.49 inHg
- Observed at
- KBWD, 2 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KBWD 112155Z AUTO 09005KT 10SM CLR 16/M09 A3049 RMK AO2 T01651088 $