# NTSB GAA26WA034: Vans RV7, New South Wales, Australia, November 30, 2025

- Type: NTSB accident investigation
- Classification: Accident · Fatal · Class 5 · Foreign
- Date: November 30, 2025, 12:09 local (01:09 UTC)
- Place: New South Wales, Australia
- Coordinates: -34.180925, 150.811947 (estimated)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=-34.1809&lon=150.8119&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Landing](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/550) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Defining event: [Landing: Midair collision](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/250)
- Highest injury: Fatal
- Injuries: 1 fatal, 1 uninjured
- Status: Led by another country's authority
- Investigation class: Class 5 - No publish
- NTSB office: General Aviation Accidents
- Lead agency: Other
- NTSB case key (mKey): 202081
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=GAA26WA034
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/202081/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/GAA26WA034

## Sequence of events

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

- [Landing: Midair collision](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/250) (defining event), aircraft 1; cases with it: [All aircraft, 196 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/250/sequence.md)

## Aircraft 1

- Registration: VH-EWS (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: VANS RV7
- Category: Airplane
- Engines: TEXTRON LYCOMING YIO-360-M1B reciprocating
- Damage: Substantial damage
- Fire: Unknown
- Flight: Personal, Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate: Special, Experimental (Special)
- Destination: Same as departure
- Airport: YWBN, Wedderburn Airport

## Aircraft 2

- Registration: VH-NMG (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: VANS RV7
- Category: Airplane
- Engines: TEXTRON LYCOMING O-360-A1A reciprocating
- Damage: Minor damage
- Fire: Unknown
- Flight: Personal, Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate: Special, Experimental (Special)

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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