- Date
- August 28, 2026, 10:30 local (16:30 UTC)
- Place
- Westminster, CO
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N125WBAmerican Champion 8GCBC
- Defining event
- Takeoff: 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
- FAA FSDO
- FAA report
- 20260828012309A
- Case key
- 203698
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
- N125WB
- Reported as
- American Champion 8GCBC
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 505-2008
- Built
- 2008
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- BJC · Rocky Mountain Metro, runway 12L/30R, 9,000 × 100 ft, asphalt
N125WBRegistered now · American Champion 8GCBCAirframe modelAmerican Champion 8GCBCEngine modelLycoming O-360-C1G
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
- 160° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 43 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.22 inHg
- Observed at
- KBJC, 1 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KBJC 281545Z 16005KT 10SM CLR 27/06 A3022
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N125WB · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.