- Date
- September 20, 2026, 20:09 UTC
- Place
- Stockton, AL · Field
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N601LLHopwood Joseph R Zodiac
- Defining event
- Enroute-cruise: Loss of engine power (partial)
- Weather
- Visual (VMC)
- Status
- Investigation ongoing
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Parties
- FAA/FSDO
- Case key
- 203852
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
- N601LL
- Reported as
- Hopwood Joseph R Zodiac
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 64385
- Built
- 2018
- Airframe hours
- 476.9
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Hopwood Joseph R
- Registered owner
- Hopwood Joseph R
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Condition · April 2, 2026
- Departed
- 25M · Ripley, MS
- Destination
- 2AL1 · Magnolia Springs, AL
- Equipment
- Data recorder, Electronic multifunction display, Electronic primary flight display, Handheld GPS, ADS-B, Angle of attack indicator, Auto-pilot
N601LLRegistered now · Hopwood Joseph R ZODIACAirframe modelHopwood Joseph R ZODIACEngine modelJabiru 3300A
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)
- Wind
- 140° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 91 °F, dew point 73 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.91 inHg
- Icing
- Unknown
- Turbulence
- Unknown
- Observed at
- BFM, 25 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KBFM 201953Z 14006KT 10SM CLR 33/23 A2991 RMK AO2 SLP127 T03330228