- Date
- February 16, 2026, 14:30 local (20:30 UTC)
- Place
- Antigo, WI
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2221VCessna 140
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 30, 2026
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA/FSDO
- FAA report
- 20260216002099A
- Case key
- 202482
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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Probable cause
The pilot receiving instruction’s failure to maintain directional control during the landing. Contributing to the accident was the flight instructor’s delayed remedial action.
Findings · 4
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
The flight instructor and pilot receiving instruction reported that while practicing takeoffs and landings, the airplane touched down to the left of the runway centerline, and the tailwheel bounced a couple times. The pilot receiving instruction attempted to correct with opposite rudder; however, he overcorrected to the right. The flight instructor took over flight controls and attempted to correct with left brake and rudder; however, the airplane exited the right side of the runway into deep snow, nosed over, and came to rest inverted. The airplane sustained substantial damage to both wings, the fuselage, the vertical stabilizer, and the rudder. The pilot and instructor both reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2221V
- Reported as
- Cessna 140 (UNDESIGNATED SERIES)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 14452
- Built
- 1947
- Airframe hours
- 2,873.5
- Engine
- Continental Aerospace Technologies C90-12F, 90 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Northwoods Gateway Aviation, doing business as Northwoods Gateway Aviation
- Registered owner
- Stone Wall Acres
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 10, 2025 · 27 hours before
- Departed
- AIG · Antigo, WI
- Destination
- AIG · Antigo, WI
- Airport
- AIG · Langlade County, runway 27, 3,400 × 75 ft, asphalt
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 · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Flight instructor
- Age
- 22
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Helicopter
- Medical
- Class 2, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- November 24, 2025
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- Lap only
- Flight hours
- 1,011 total · 76 in this make and model · 815 as pilot in command · 34 in the last 90 days · 23 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 61
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Sport Pilot
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Sport pilot
- Last flight review
- June 16, 2025
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- Lap only
- Flight hours
- 628 total · 3 in this make and model · 618 as pilot in command · 1 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 300° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 50 °F, dew point 32 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.82 inHg
- Observed at
- AIG
- METAR
- METAR KAIG 162035Z AUTO 30007KT 10SM CLR 09/00 A2982 RMK AO2 T00891003
Docket · 4
The files NTSB released with the investigation on April 30, 2026, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 4.6 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.