- Date
- August 19, 2025, 14:10 local (21:10 UTC)
- Place
- Vacaville, CA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N14GCBoeing B75N1
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 17, 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
- 20250819018029A
- Case key
- 200822
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll with a quartering tailwind.
Findings · 3
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 he performed a wheel landing, and that during the landing roll, as the tailwheel contacted the ground, he felt the left wing start to get low. The pilot attempted to correct with aileron input; however, the lower left wing struck the runway. The pilot applied full power to abort the landing; however, airplane veered to the right and exited the right side of the runway. The left main landing gear struck rough terrain and the airplane subsequently nosed over and came to rest inverted, which resulted in substantial damage to the left lower wing and rudder. 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 the airplane on runway 02 with wind from 180° at 7 knots.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N14GC
- Reported as
- Boeing B75N1
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 75-6503
- Built
- 1941
- Airframe hours
- 455.3
- Engine
- Lycoming R680-17, 225 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Jr Stearman LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Aerobatic
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 19, 2024 · 35 hours before
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- VCB · Nut Tree, runway 02, 4,700 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- ADS-B
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
- 37
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- May 17, 2021
- Seat
- Rear
- Flight hours
- 252 total · 60 in this make and model · 164 as pilot in command · 16 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 88 °F, dew point 46 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.03 inHg
- Observed at
- KVCB
- METAR
- KVCB 192053Z AUTO 18007KT 10SM CLR 31/08 A3003 RMK AO2 SLP168 T03060078 58009
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on October 17, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 3.1 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.
Other investigations on N14GC · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.