- Date
- July 27, 2025, 20:00 local (Jul 28, 2025, 03:00 UTC)
- Place
- Davenport, WA · airport environment
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N66LTLake Tahoe Properties CA 8
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night
- Status
- Completed · report December 11, 2025
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- FAA report
- 20250727010339A
- Case key
- 200657
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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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll.
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
The pilot of the tailwheel equipped airplane reported that upon touchdown the airplane bounced twice. As the airplane slowed, the pilot applied the brakes, and the airplane veered to the right. He corrected with hard left rudder; however, the airplane then veered to the left and exited the runway surface. Subsequently, the airplane ground looped, and the left wing struck the ground, which resulted in substantial damage to the left aileron. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. At the time of the accident, the pilot was landing on runway 24 with wind from 240° at 11 knots.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N66LT
- Reported as
- Lake Tahoe Properties CA 8
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 008233
- Built
- 2007
- Airframe hours
- 134
- Engine
- Walter 601 D, 750 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 10, 2025 · 20 hours before
- Departed
- MAN · Nampa, ID
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- 68S · Davenport, runway 24, 3,260 × 60 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Electronic primary flight display, ADS-B, Auto-pilot, Electronic flight bag or handheld device, Electronic multifunction 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
- 57
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- May 21, 2024
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 493 total · 19 in this make and model · 416 as pilot in command · 45 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night
- Wind
- 240° at 11 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 37 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.96 inHg
- Observed at
- KGEG, 26 nm away
- METAR
- KGEG 280253Z 24011KT 10SM FEW070 FEW120 FEW200 28/03 A2996 RMK AO2 SLP129 VIRGA T02780028 53002 $
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on December 11, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.7 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.