- Date
- September 24, 2026, 19:18 local (23:18 UTC)
- Place
- Kerrtown, PA · Airport preoperty
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N390KCRoberts GS-2 Sportsman
- 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
- 203896
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
- N390KC
- Reported as
- Roberts GS-2 Sportsman
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 7160
- Built
- 2006
- Airframe hours
- 196.9
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Aqua Fool, LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · August 22, 2026 · 21 hours before
- Departed
- GKJ · Meadville, PA
- Airport
- GKJ · Port Meadville, runway 07, 4,999 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Handheld GPS, Stall warning system, ADS-B, Angle of attack indicator, Electronic flight bag or handheld device
N390KCRegistered now · Roberts GS-2 SPORTSMANAirframe modelRoberts GS-2 SPORTSMANEngine modelAmateur-built UNKNOWN ENG
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 4 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 61 °F, dew point 43 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.33 inHg
- Observed at
- GKJ
- METAR
- METAR KGKJ 242253Z AUTO 03004KT 10SM CLR 16/06 A3033 RMK AO2 SLP273 T01610056