- Date
- June 28, 2025, 14:20 local (21:20 UTC)
- Place
- Tracy, CA · KPAO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N6744FCessna 150F
- Defining event
- Takeoff: Flight control sys malf/fail
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Investigation ongoing
- Investigation class
- Class 3
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- FAA report
- 20250628017859A
- Case key
- 200428
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Preliminary report
What NTSB knew early in the investigation. It may change in the final report.
On June 28, 2025, about 1420 Pacific daylight time, a Cessna 150F, N6744F, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident at Tracy Municipal Airport (TCY), Tracy, California. The pilot was not injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. The pilot reported that she was enroute from Palo Alto, California to Rancho Murieta, California, and had landed at TCY to refuel. After completing a preflight, with no anomalies or concerns noted regarding the flight controls, the pilot decided to perform a soft field take-off for departure on runway 30. As the airplane lifted off the runway the pilot pitched the nose down to increase airspeed. The airplane drifted left, descended and impacted terrain adjacent to a taxiway. Postaccident examination of the airplane revealed that the right wing and engine mounts were substantially damaged.
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
- N6744F
- Reported as
- Cessna 150F
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15063344
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Registration Pending
- Registered owner
- Registration Pending
- Destination
- KRIU · Rancho Murieta, CA
- Airport
- TCY · Tracy Muni, runway 12/30, 4,001 × 75 ft, asphalt
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
- 350° at 7 knots, gusting 13
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 95 °F, dew point 55 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.88 inHg
- Observed at
- KTCY
- METAR
- METAR KTCY 282115Z AUTO 35007G13KT 10SM CLR 35/13 A2988 RMK A01=
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N6744F · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.