- Date
- October 24, 2026, 16:30 local (21:30 UTC)
- Place
- Hartford, WI · 43.38457725166325, -88.29172192917673
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N34402Aeronca 65CA
- Defining event
- Enroute: Fuel exhaustion
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Investigation ongoing
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA FSDON
- Case key
- 204068
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
- N34402
- Reported as
- Aeronca 65CA
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- C-14291
- Built
- 1941
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Hogue Gary
- Departed
- OSH · Oshkosh, WI
- Destination
- 62C · Franksville, WI
- Airport
- HXF
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
- 140° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 66 °F, dew point 50 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.33 inHg
- Observed at
- KETB, 7 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KETB 242135Z AUTO 14005KT 10SM CLR 19/10 A3033 RMK AO2