- Date
- June 8, 2026, 20:18 local (Jun 9, 2026, 00:18 UTC)
- Place
- Gilford, NH · On airport
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N316HYCessna 177
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Investigation ongoing
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Parties
- FAA/FSDO
- Case key
- 203146
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
- N316HY
- Reported as
- Cessna 177 (B)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17702651
- Built
- 1977
- Airframe hours
- 5,692
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Lakeview Aviation Inc
- Registered owner
- Lakeview Aviation Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · April 9, 2026 · 16 hours before
- Departed
- EFK · Newport, VT
- Destination
- LCI · Laconia, NH
- Airport
- LCI · Laconia Muni, runway 08/26, 5,890 × 100 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- ADS-B, Stall warning system
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) · Dusk
- Wind
- 260° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 52 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.17 inHg
- Observed at
- KLCI, 1 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KLCI 082356Z AUTO 26003KT 6SM HZ CLR 23/11 A3017 RMK AO2 SLP214 T02280111 10261 20228 55000=