- Date
- October 15, 2026, 13:00 local (17:00 UTC)
- Place
- Gastonia, NC
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9655FHughes 269C
- Defining event
- Landing: Sys/Comp malf/fail (non-power)
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Investigation ongoing
- Investigation class
- Class 3
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Case key
- 204033
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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
- N9655F
- Reported as
- Hughes 269C
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Equipment
- ADS-B
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
- 270° at 3 knots
Other investigations on N9655F · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.