- Date
- July 27, 2025, 10:10 local (17:10 UTC)
- Place
- Coeur d' Alene, ID
- Injuries
- 3 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N505RFBallisodare Lancair Evolution
- Defining event
- Approach-VFR pattern base: Loss of engine power (total)
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Investigation ongoing
- Investigation class
- Class 3
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20250727009019A
- Case key
- 200658
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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Preliminary report
What NTSB knew early in the investigation. It may change in the final report.
On July 27, 2025, about 1010 Pacific daylight time, an experimental amateur-built Lancair Evolution airplane, N505RF, was destroyed when it was involved in an accident near Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. The pilot and two passengers sustained minor injuries. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. The pilot reported an uneventful takeoff and flew south to the north end of Coeur d’Alene Lake and then proceeded back towards the airport. During his turn to the base leg of the traffic pattern, he received a low oil pressure warning and then the engine lost all power. Unable to make it to the airport, the pilot made a forced landing on a road. The airplane then departed the left side of the road, the landing gear separated, and the airplane skidded before it came to rest. The occupants exited the airplane, and by the time they were at a safe distance, most of the airplane was consumed by postcrash fire. The airplane was recovered to a secure facility for further examination.
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
- N505RF
- Reported as
- Ballisodare Lancair Evolution
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- EVO-0046
- Built
- 2013
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Walsh Engineering Services Pc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Airport
- COE · Coeur d' Alene Airport -Pappy Boyington Field, runway 20, 5,400 × 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
- 170° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 45 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- KCOE
- METAR
- METAR KCOE 271656Z AUTO 17006KT 10SM FEW100 23/07 A3000 RMK AO2 SLP159
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.