- Date
- October 19, 2026, 17:32 UTC
- Place
- Tavares, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N900JBCessna A185F
- Defining event
- Takeoff: Loss of engine power (total)
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Investigation ongoing
- Investigation class
- Class 3
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Case key
- 204052
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
- N900JB
- Reported as
- Cessna A185F
- Flight
- Instructional
- Registered owner
- Pumpkin Eater LLC
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
- 20° at 8 knots, gusting 17
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Observed at
- 7 nm away