- Date
- September 26, 2026, 17:11 local (21:11 UTC)
- Place
- Mason, MI
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N8086GPiper PA-28-181
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Landing gear collapse
- Status
- Investigation ongoing
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA Grand Rapids FSDO
- Case key
- 203893
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
- N8086G
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-181
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-8090084
- Built
- 1979
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Mason Aviation Club LLC
- Registered owner
- Mason Aviation Club LLC
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- TEW
N8086GRegistered now · Piper PA-28-181Airframe modelPiper PA-28-181Engine modelLycoming O&VO-360 series
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
- Wind
- 40° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 43 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.14 inHg
- Observed at
- KTEW
- METAR
- METAR KTEW 262115Z AUTO 04005KT 10SM CLR 21/06 A3014 RMK AO2 T02110062