- Date
- August 13, 2026, 11:35 local (15:35 UTC)
- Place
- Readington Township, NJ
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N928LYPiper PA-28R-180
- 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
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Parties
- FAA/ FSDO, FAA/FSDO
- FAA report
- 20260813010919A
- Case key
- 203621
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
- N928LY
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28R-180
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28R-30007
- Built
- 1967
- Airframe hours
- 3,002
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Luis Lozano, doing business as Lp Aviation Maintenance LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · July 26, 2026
- Departed
- LDJ · Linden, NJ
- Destination
- N51 · Readington, NJ
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- N51 · Solberg/Hunterdon
- Equipment
- ADS-B
N928LYRegistered now · Piper PA-28R-180Airframe modelPiper PA-28R-180Engine modelLycoming I0360 series
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
- 20° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 8 statute miles
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 66 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.86 inHg
- Observed at
- KSMQ, 4 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KSMQ 131453Z AUTO 02004KT 8SM SCT033 27/19 A2986 RMK AO2 SLP108 T02720189 53008
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.