- Date
- August 4, 2026, 08:35 local (14:35 UTC)
- Place
- Longmont, CO · 40.164364° -105.152650°
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N3264FMooney M20E
- Defining event
- Initial climb: Loss of engine power (partial)
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Investigation ongoing
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- Lycoming Engines, FAA
- Case key
- 203530
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
- N3264F
- Reported as
- Mooney M20E
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 670057
- Built
- 1967
- Airframe hours
- 3,491.3
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Baker Richard D
- Registered owner
- Sawyer White and Tanner White
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 2, 2026
- Departed
- KLMO · Longmont, CO
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- LMO · Vance Brand, runway 11/29, 4,799 × 75 ft, concrete
- Equipment
- ADS-B
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
- 50° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,400 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 55 °F, dew point 41 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.27 inHg
- Observed at
- KLMO, 1 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KLMO 041455Z AUTO 05005KT 10SM OVC044 13/05 A3027 RMK AO2 T01330052