- Date
- January 27, 2026, 11:20 local (17:20 UTC)
- Place
- Houston, TX · 6120 Lat/long
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N927NAMartin/General Dynamics WB-57F
- Defining event
- Landing: Landing gear not configured
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Investigation ongoing
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Major Investigations Division
- Parties
- NASA, FAA AVP-110
- FAA report
- 20260127002689I
- Case key
- 202358
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
- N927NA
- Reported as
- Martin/General Dynamics WB-57F
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 63-13295
- Built
- 1963
- Airframe hours
- 4,324.1
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Public aircraft - federal · Public use
- Operator
- National Aeronautics And Space Administration
- Registered owner
- National Aeronautics And Space Administration
- Last inspection
- July 7, 2025
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- KEFD · Ellington, runway 17R/35L, 9,001 × 150 ft, concrete
- Equipment
- Auto-pilot, Electronic primary flight display, 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
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 43 °F, dew point 28 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.58 inHg
- Observed at
- KEFD, 1 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KEFD 271654Z 00000KT 10SM CLR 06/M02 A3058
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.