- Date
- September 25, 2026, 06:50 local (10:50 UTC)
- Place
- St. Petersburg, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9539LCessna 182S
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Hard landing
- 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
- 203894
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
- N9539L
- Reported as
- Cessna 182S
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18280185
- Built
- 1998
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- St Pete Aviation Services LLC
- Registered owner
- St Pete Aviation Services LLC
- Destination
- PIE · Clearwater, FL
- Airport
- SPG · Albert Whitted
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
- 30° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 1,500 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 68 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.95 inHg
- Observed at
- KSPG
- METAR
- METAR KSPG 251053Z 03012KT 10SM OVC015 23/20 A2995 RMK AO2 SLP141 T02280200