- Date
- September 19, 2026, 16:05 local (20:05 UTC)
- Place
- Sanford, NC
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N900PPHart Frank RV-8A
- 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
- Case key
- 203895
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
- N900PP
- Reported as
- Hart Frank RV-8A
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 82103
- Built
- 2007
- Airframe hours
- 1,276
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Condition · July 1, 2026
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- TTA · Raleigh Exec Jetport At Sanford-Lee County, runway 03, 6,501 × 100 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Electronic multifunction display, Auto-pilot, Angle of attack indicator, ADS-B, Electronic primary flight display
N900PPRegistered now · Hart Frank RV-8AAirframe modelHart Frank RV-8AEngine modelLycoming IO-360-A1B6
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
- 50° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 86 °F, dew point 66 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.02 inHg
- Observed at
- KTTA
- METAR
- METAR KTTA 191955Z AUTO 05003KT 10SM SCT045 SCT050 30/19 A3002