# NTSB WPR25LA255: Cessna 180K, N2691K, Anza, CA, August 14, 2025

- Type: NTSB accident investigation
- Classification: Accident · No injuries · Class 3 · Limited · Preliminary report
- Date: August 14, 2025, 08:30 local (15:30 UTC)
- Place: Anza, CA · Airport Environment
- Coordinates: 33.521603, -116.79607 (estimated)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=33.5216&lon=-116.7961&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Landing](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/550) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Defining event: [Landing-landing roll: Loss of control on ground](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/230)
- Highest injury: No injuries
- Injuries: 1 uninjured
- Status: Investigation ongoing
- Investigation class: Class 3
- NTSB office: Western Pacific Region
- Parties: Federal Aviation Administration
- NTSB case key (mKey): 200789
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=WPR25LA255
- NTSB preliminary report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/200789/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/WPR25LA255

## Preliminary report

On August 14, 2025, about 0830 Pacific daylight time, a Cessna 180K, N2691K, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Anza, California. The pilot was not injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 as a personal flight. The pilot reported that after she conducted a normal 3-point landing on runway 28 at Lake Riverside Estates Airport (54CL), Anza, California, the airplane began to drift to the left and she applied right rudder to counteract the drift. Despite her control inputs the airplane continued to drift to the left, which resulted in a ground loop and the left main landing gear collapsed Postaccident examination of the airplane revealed the left wing was substantially damaged.

## Sequence of events

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

- [Landing-landing roll: Loss of control on ground](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/230) (defining event); cases with it: [Cessna 180K, 11 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/230/sequence.md?model=2072624), [All aircraft, 4,585 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/230/sequence.md)

## Aircraft

- Registration: [N2691K](https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N2691K-2026-09-15), registration cancelled 2026-09-15, S/N 18053036, built 1979 (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 180K
- Registry model: [Cessna 180K](https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-180k) (registry code 2072624) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: [Continental O-470 series](https://openairdocs.org/engine/continental-o-470-series) (registry code 17026, reciprocating) (OpenAirDocs)
- Category: Airplane
- Serial number: 18053036
- Year built: 1979
- Damage: Substantial damage
- Flight: Personal, Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate: Standard, Normal
- Last inspection: Annual, April 14, 2025
- Departed: O22, Columbia, CA
- Destination: Same as departure
- Airport: 54CL, Lake Riverside Estates, runway 28, 3,600 × 40 ft, asphalt
- Equipment: ADS-B

## Weather

- Conditions: Visual (VMC), Day
- Wind: 220° at 3 knots
- Visibility: 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling: none
- Temperature: 68 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter: 29.96 inHg
- Observed at: KHMT, 17 nm away
- METAR: KHMT 141555Z AUTO 22003KT 7SM CLR 20/17 A2996 RMK AO2

## FAA reports on this event (1)

The FAA's own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date (OpenAirDocs).

- [Accident 20250814013309A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20250814013309A), Aug 14, 2025: Cessna 180K, Anza, CA, Substantial damage. On August 14, 2025, a Cessna 180 aircraft was completing the final leg of a flight from columbia, CA (O22) to yakima, WA, at 9,500 feet. Due to a marine layer…

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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