# NTSB GAA26WA006: Piper PA32, Shell Harbor, Australia, October 10, 2025

- Type: NTSB accident investigation
- Classification: Accident · Fatal · Class 5 · Foreign
- Date: October 11, 2025, 10:20 local (Oct 10, 2025, 23:20 UTC)
- Place: Shell Harbor, Australia
- Coordinates: -34.56246, 150.787911
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=-34.5625&lon=150.7879&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Initial climb](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/350) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Defining event: [Initial climb: Collision with terr/obj (non-CFIT) ](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/470)
- Highest injury: Fatal
- Injuries: 3 fatal
- Status: Led by another country's authority
- Investigation class: Class 5 - No publish
- NTSB office: General Aviation Accidents
- Lead agency: Other
- Parties: Australian Transport Safety Bureau
- NTSB case key (mKey): 201850
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=GAA26WA006
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/201850/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/GAA26WA006

## Sequence of events

The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event best describes what happened.

- [Initial climb: Collision with terr/obj (non-CFIT) ](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/470) (defining event); cases with it: [All aircraft, 10,189 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/470/sequence.md)

## Aircraft

- Registration: VH-JVA (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA32
- Category: Airplane
- Damage: Destroyed
- Fire: Unknown
- Airworthiness certificate: Standard, Normal
- Departed: Shell Harbor
- Airport: YSHL

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

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