- Date
- September 4, 2026, 14:10 local (18:10 UTC)
- Place
- California, MD
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N187PHCirrus Design SR20
- Defining event
- Takeoff-rejected takeoff: Runway excursion
- Status
- Investigation ongoing
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Parties
- FAA/FSDO
- FAA report
- 20260904012299A
- Case key
- 203842
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
- N187PH
- Reported as
- Cirrus Design SR20
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 2081
- Built
- 2011
- Airframe hours
- 2,762.2
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Chester County Aviation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · June 20, 2026 · 18 hours before
- Departed
- 2W6 · Leonardtown, MD
- Destination
- MQS · Coatesville, PA
- Airport
- 2W6 · St Mary'S County Rgnl, runway 29, 5,350 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Airframe parachute, Auto-pilot, ADS-B, Stall warning system, Electronic primary flight display, Electronic multifunction display
N187PHRegistered now · Cirrus Design SR20Airframe modelCirrus Design SR20Engine modelContinental IO-360-ES
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
- Wind
- 340° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 88 °F, dew point 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.93 inHg
- Observed at
- NHK, 6 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KNHK 041752Z 34007KT 10SM FEW100 SCT250 31/22 A2993 RMK AO2 SLP134 T03060222 10306 20244 58007 $
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.