- Date
- July 19, 2026, 13:30 local (17:30 UTC)
- Place
- Allisonia, VA · Private Airstrip
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N251HFJeremy Price Smith Super CUB
- Defining event
- Taxi: Ground collision
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 11, 2026
- 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
- 20260719007899A
- Case key
- 203421
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 pilot’s inadequate lookout, which resulted in a collision with ground equipment during taxi.
Findings · 1
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 pilot reported that he performed four practice landings at the departure airport, to confirm landing performance, then continued to a private gravel airstrip. He overflew the airstrip and observed calm wind conditions, then performed another flyover to verify the runway was clear of obstructions. While on final approach, a gust of wind resulted in a temporary increase in airspeed then a touchdown farther than planned. After landing, during a “fast-taxi maneuver” he struck ground equipment that was obscured because of the tailwheel airplane’s nose-high pitch attitude. The landing gear collapsed, then the airplane then struck another piece of equipment, which resulted in substantial damage to the left wing. The pilot stated that there were no preimpact mechanical malfunctions or failures of the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N251HF
- Reported as
- Jeremy Price Smith Super CUB
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- JP001
- Built
- 2025
- Airframe hours
- 95.4
- Engine
- Lycoming AEIO-360-B2F, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Haidar Aviation LLC
- Registered owner
- Haidar Aviation LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Condition · July 16, 2026 · 24.8 hours before
- Departed
- PSK · Dublin, VA
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- None · None, runway None, 800 × 30 ft, gravel
- Equipment
- ADS-B, Electronic primary flight display
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
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 42
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane, Helicopter
- Medical
- Class 3
- Last flight review
- November 13, 2025
- Seat
- Front
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 1,697.7 total · 8.8 in this make and model · 1,402.2 as pilot in command · 52.8 in the last 90 days · 23.5 in the last 30 days · 1.5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.04 inHg
- Observed at
- HLX, 10 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KHLX 191735Z AUTO 27006KT 10SM SCT023 27/21 A3004 RMK AO2 LTG DSNT NE E AND W
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on September 11, 2026, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.0 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.