# NTSB ERA26LA025: Akrotech Giles G-202, N202RD, Boca Raton, FL, October 28, 2025

- Type: NTSB accident investigation
- Classification: Accident · No injuries · Class 4 · Limited · Final report
- Date: October 28, 2025, 09:03 local (13:03 UTC)
- Place: Boca Raton, FL · Runup Pad Rwy 5 @ BCT
- Coordinates: 26.373122, -80.114745 (estimated)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=26.3731&lon=-80.1147&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Taxi](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/250) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Defining events: [Taxi: Ground collision](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/200); [Taxi: Ground collision](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/200)
- Highest injury: No injuries
- Injuries: 3 uninjured
- Status: Completed, report January 9, 2026
- Report: Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class: Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office: Eastern Region Aviation
- Parties: FAA/FSDO
- NTSB case key (mKey): 201933
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=ERA26LA025
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/201933/pdf
- NTSB docket: https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket?ProjectID=201933
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ERA26LA025

## Probable cause (aircraft 1)

The low-wing pilot’s inadequate visual lookout, which resulted in a collision with another airplane while taxiing.

## Findings

NTSB's coded findings; those marked are part of the probable cause.

- [Attention/monitoring: monitoring other aircraft](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02021540): Personnel issues › Psychological · Pilot (probable cause), aircraft 1; cases with it: [Akrotech GILES G-202, 1 case](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02021540/cases.md?model=05602IU), [All aircraft, 231 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02021540/cases.md)
- [Attention/monitoring: monitoring other aircraft](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02021540): Personnel issues › Psychological · Pilot of other aircraft (probable cause), aircraft 2; cases with it: [Cessna 172R, 2 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02021540/cases.md?model=2072401), [All aircraft, 231 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02021540/cases.md)

## Sequence of events

The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event best describes what happened.

- [Taxi: Ground collision](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/200) (defining event), aircraft 1; cases with it: [Akrotech GILES G-202, 1 case](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/200/sequence.md?model=05602IU), [All aircraft, 618 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/200/sequence.md)
- [Taxi: Ground collision](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/200) (defining event), aircraft 2; cases with it: [Cessna 172R, 4 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/200/sequence.md?model=2072401), [All aircraft, 618 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/200/sequence.md)

## Analysis (aircraft 1)

The pilot of the tailwheel-equipped low-wing airplane received a taxi clearance from the tower air traffic controller for a planned departure and began taxing toward the assigned runway. About 3 minutes later, the student pilot of the high-wing airplane requested and received a takeoff clearance while located stationary at the edge of the runup area. The student pilot then advised his flight instructor that the low-wing airplane was approaching from the left, heading toward their airplane. To avoid a collision, the flight instructor took control of the high-wing airplane and advanced the throttle in an attempt to taxi out of the path of the low-wing airplane. The low-wing airplane then impacted the high-wing airplane, resulting in substantial damage to the propeller of the low-wing airplane and to the left wing of the high-wing airplane. The pilot of the low-wing airplane reported that he saw other airplanes in the runup area but did not see the accident high-wing airplane until he was “underneath” its wing. The pilots of both airplanes reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplanes that would have precluded normal operation.

## Aircraft 1

- Registration: [N202RD](https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N202RD), registered now, S/N G2020021, built 1997 (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: AKROTECH AVIATION INC GILES G-202
- Registry model: [Akrotech GILES G-202](https://openairdocs.org/model/akrotech-giles-g-202) (registry code 05602IU) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: [Lycoming AEIO-360 series](https://openairdocs.org/engine/lycoming-aeio-360-series) (registry code 41522, reciprocating) (OpenAirDocs)
- Category: Airplane
- Serial number: G2020021
- Year built: 1997
- Airframe hours: 1509
- Engines: LYCOMING AEIO-360-A1A 200 horsepower reciprocating
- Damage: Substantial damage
- Flight: Personal, Part 91
- Operator: High Alpha Aero LLC
- Registered owner: High Alpha Aero LLC
- Airworthiness certificate: Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection: Condition, June 30, 2025
- Departed: BCT, Boca Raton, FL
- Airport: BCT, Boca Raton, runway 05, 6,276 × 150 ft, asphalt
- Equipment: ADS-B

## Aircraft 2

- Registration: [N825KS](https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N825KS), registered now, S/N 17280791, built 1999 (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 172R (R)
- Registry model: [Cessna 172R](https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-172r) (registry code 2072401) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: [Lycoming I0360 series](https://openairdocs.org/engine/lycoming-i0360-series) (registry code 41515, reciprocating) (OpenAirDocs)
- Category: Airplane
- Serial number: 17280791
- Year built: 1999
- Engines: Lycoming IO-360-L2A 160 horsepower reciprocating
- Damage: Substantial damage
- Flight: Instructional, Part 91
- Operator: Lynn University
- Registered owner: Planelease LLC
- Airworthiness certificate: Standard, Normal
- Last inspection: 100 hour, October 27, 2025
- Departed: BCT, BOCA RATON, FL
- Airport: KBCT, Boca Raton Airport, runway 5, 6,276 × 150 ft, asphalt
- Equipment: ADS-B, Stall warning system

## Flight crew

As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.

- Pilot, aircraft N202RD; age 39; injuries: none; commercial, airline transport; airplane ratings: single-engine land, multi-engine land; instrument ratings: airplane; medical: class 2, with waivers/limitations; last flight review November 26, 2024; seat: rear; restraint: 5-point; flight hours: 3,880 total, 433 in this make and model, 3,587 as pilot in command, 49 in the last 90 days, 16.5 in the last 30 days, 0.8 in the last 24 hours
- Flight instructor, aircraft N825KS; age 23; injuries: none; commercial, flight instructor; airplane ratings: single-engine land, multi-engine land; instrument ratings: airplane; medical: class 1, with waivers/limitations; last flight review August 18, 2025; seat: right; restraint: 3-point; flight hours: 435 in this make and model, 70 in the last 90 days
- Student pilot, aircraft N825KS; age 19; injuries: none; student; medical: class 1, with waivers/limitations; seat: left; restraint: 3-point; flight hours: 89 total, 59 in this make and model, 22 in the last 90 days, 12 in the last 30 days

## Weather

- Conditions: Visual (VMC), Day
- Wind: 350° at 6 knots
- Visibility: 10 statute miles
- Temperature: 86 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Altimeter: 2984.00 inHg
- Observed at: BCT
- METAR: METAR KBCT 281353Z 35006KT 10SM CLR 30/21 A2984

## FAA reports on this event (1)

The FAA's own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date (OpenAirDocs).

- [Accident 20251028018222A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20251028018222A), Oct 28, 2025: Akrotech Aviation Inc GILES G-202, Boca Raton, FL, Substantial damage. On 28OCT2025 at approximately 0905 local time, a giles G202 tailwheel airplane collided with a Cessna 172 at the run up area near runway 05 at Boca Raton…

## Docket (7 files)

The files NTSB released with the investigation on January 9, 2026, on NTSB's docket system: https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket?ProjectID=201933. 49.2 MB in all.

- Pilot/operator aircraft accident report, NTSB form 6120.1 (N202RD) (item 1, PDF, 12 pages, 375 KB): https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket/Document/docBLOB?ID=19550233&FileExtension=pdf&FileName=ERA26LA025%206120.1%20Giles_Redacted-Rel.pdf
- Pilot/operator aircraft accident report, NTSB form 6120.1 (N825KS - instructor) (item 2, PDF, 11 pages, 397 KB): https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket/Document/docBLOB?ID=19563011&FileExtension=pdf&FileName=ERA26LA025%206120.1%20Cessna%20(Instructor)_Redacted-Rel.pdf
- Pilot/operator aircraft accident report, NTSB form 6120.1 (N825KS-student) (item 3, PDF, 10 pages, 3.6 MB): https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket/Document/docBLOB?ID=19580841&FileExtension=pdf&FileName=ERA26LA025%206120.1%20Cessna%20(Student)_Redacted-Rel.pdf
- Airport accident location (item 4, PDF, 1 page, 146 KB): https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket/Document/docBLOB?ID=19645768&FileExtension=pdf&FileName=Accident%20Location%20-%20Boca%20Raton%20Airport-Rel.pdf
- Surveillance video of accident (item 5, MP4, 31.5 MB): https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket/Document/docBLOB?ID=19609246&FileExtension=mp4&FileName=ATC%20PTZ%202%20-%20.65-2025-10-28_09h00min57s737ms-Rel.mp4
- Summary of radio communications (item 6, PDF, 1 page, 751 KB): https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket/Document/docBLOB?ID=19635001&FileExtension=pdf&FileName=FAA%20Radio%20Communication%20Excerpts%20from%20Accident%20Package_Redacted-Rel.pdf
- Investigation photographs (item 7, PDF, 6 pages, 6 photos, 12.5 MB): https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket/Document/docBLOB?ID=19647157&FileExtension=pdf&FileName=ERA26LA025%20Photo%20Array_Redacted-Rel.pdf

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

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