- Date
- April 18, 2025, 14:15 UTC
- Place
- Oxford, ME
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2607VCessna 170
- Defining event
- Landing: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 14, 2025
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Parties
- FAA/FSDO
- FAA report
- 20250418004979A
- Case key
- 200274
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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Probable cause
The flight instructor’s failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll in gusty crosswind conditions.
Findings · 3
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
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.
Analysis
The flight instructor reported that he assumed control of the tailwheel-equipped airplane near the conclusion of the local instructional flight. During the approach to land on runway 15, he observed the wind from 240° at 12 knots with occasional wind gust of 18 knots. During the landing roll with a right crosswind, the airplane encountered a wind gust. The airplane veered left of the runway centerline and its nose rotated right. The pilot applied left rudder and full engine power but was unable to regain directional control. The airplane exited the right side of the runway, traversed through a swale, impacted a culvert, and its left wing impacted the ground as it crossed a taxiway. The airplane came to rest in a grassy area adjacent to the taxiway. The airplane’s fuselage and left wing were substantially damaged during the accident sequence. The flight instructor reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failure with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2607V
- Reported as
- Cessna 170
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18117
- Built
- 1948
- Airframe hours
- 3,231.49
- Engine
- Continental C145, 145 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 12, 2025 · 2 hours before
- Airport
- 81B · Oxford County Regional Airport, runway 15, 2,997 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- 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.
Flight crew · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 63
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- BasicMed, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- March 31, 2024
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 5,503 total · 33 in this make and model · 4,333 as pilot in command · 58 in the last 90 days · 20 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
- Role
- Student pilot
- Age
- 61
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 26 total · 1 in this make and model · 10 in the last 90 days · 9 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 170° at 12 knots, gusting 17
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 57 °F, dew point 19 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.12 inHg
- Turbulence
- Moderate
- Observed at
- LEW, 11 nm away
- METAR
- KLEW 181756Z AUTO 17012G17KT 10SM CLR 14/M07 A3012 RMK AO2 SLP207 6//// T01441067 10150 20039 56028 PNO $
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on November 14, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.8 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.