- Date
- October 3, 2026, 11:30 local (15:30 UTC)
- Place
- Brazil, IN
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N763LGPost Thorp T-18
- Defining event
- Landing: Collision during takeoff/land
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Investigation ongoing
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA
- Case key
- 203931
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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
- N763LG
- Reported as
- Post Thorp T-18
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 460
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Leslie Allen Gardner
- Registered owner
- Leslie Allen Gardner
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- 0I2 · Brazil Clay County/Charles B Hall Fld, runway 09/27, 2,941 × 40 ft, asphalt
N763LGRegistered now · Post THORP T-18Airframe modelPost THORP T-18Engine 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
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 90° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 61 °F, dew point 52 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.30 inHg
- Observed at
- KHUF, 9 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KHUF 031453Z 09009KT 10SM CLR 16/11 A3030 RMK AO2 SLP258 T01610106 51009
Other investigations on N763LG · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.