- Date
- July 15, 2025, 10:43 local (17:43 UTC)
- Place
- North Las Vegas, NV
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N945BBeech 95-B55 (T42A)
- Defining event
- Takeoff: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 6, 2025
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20250715012339A
- Case key
- 200585
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Probable cause
The failure of the pilot to set the flaps to the proper configuration for takeoff.
Findings · 2
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
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.
Analysis
During takeoff roll, while rotating, the pilot noted that there was insufficient airspeed and responded by pushing the nose down. Subsequently, the nose gear impacted the runway and collapsed, and the airplane veered off the right side of the runway resulted in substantial damage to the fuselage. The pilot reported that the flaps were extended more than 10° takeoff setting, and that he did not check where they were set during the attempted takeoff. Additionally, an airport video showed the airplane porpoising down the runway and the flaps were observed extended pass the typical takeoff setting. The pilot stated that there were no mechanical failures or malfunctions that would have precluded the normal operation of the airplane.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N945B
- Reported as
- Beech 95-B55 (T42A)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- TC-1826
- Built
- 1974
- Airframe hours
- 3,176.1
- Engines
- Continental IO-470-L21, 260 horsepower, reciprocatingContinental IO-470-L21, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Horizonx Aviation LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 26, 2024
- Destination
- CNO · Chino, CA
- Airport
- VGT · North Las Vegas, runway 12R/30L, 5,000 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, ADS-B, Auto-pilot, Electronic multifunction display, Electronic primary flight display
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.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 38
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- February 21, 2025
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 324.4 total · 45.1 in this make and model · 194.6 as pilot in command · 78 in the last 90 days · 38.6 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 110° at 13 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 99 °F, dew point 48 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.86 inHg
- Observed at
- KVGT
- METAR
- METAR KVGT 151753Z 11013KT 10SM CLR 37/09 A2986 RMK AO2 SLP094 T03720089 10372 20294 58002
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on November 6, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.4 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.