- Date
- September 13, 2026, 13:00 local (17:00 UTC)
- Place
- Morven, GA · 470 BCT Gin Road Quipman Georgia
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N686LAAir Tractor AT-602
- Defining event
- Enroute: Birdstrike
- 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
- Case key
- 203800
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
- N686LA
- Reported as
- Air Tractor AT-602
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 602-1186
- Airframe hours
- 6,200
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 137
- Registered owner
- Ford Flying Service Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Restricted (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 24, 2025 · 600 hours before
- Departed
- PVT · Doerun, GA
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- PVT · Dewitt Flying Service Strip, runway 27, 3,500 × 100 ft, grass/turf
- Equipment
- Unknown
N686LARegistered now · Air Tractor AT-602Airframe modelAir Tractor AT-602Engine modelPratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-60AG
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 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 88 °F, dew point 73 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.02 inHg
- Observed at
- VLD, 12 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KVLD 131653Z 02007KT 10SM SCT033 31/23 A3002 RMK AO2 SLP172 T03110228