- Date
- August 23, 2025, 13:45 local (20:45 UTC)
- Place
- Lakeview, OR · on airport
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N185GGCessna A185F
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 26, 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
- 20250823016419A
- Case key
- 200873
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, in gusting crosswind conditions.
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 during the landing roll, the airplane experienced a wind gust from the right. The airplane veered to the right and the pilot attempted to regain directional control using rudder and aileron inputs. The airplane continued to the right, exited the runway surface and ground looped. The left wing and aileron sustained substantial damage. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures that would have precluded normal operation. At the time of the accident, the pilot was landing on runway 17 with wind from 260° at 6 knots, gusting to 20 knots.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N185GG
- Reported as
- Cessna A185F
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18502787
- Built
- 1975
- Airframe hours
- 5,204.3
- Engine
- Continental IO550D, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 7, 2025 · 45 hours before
- Departed
- HRI · Hermiston, OR
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- LKV · Lake County Airport, runway 17, 5,318 × 100 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Angle of attack indicator, Auto-pilot, Electronic multifunction display, Electronic primary flight display, 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
- 40
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- May 30, 2025
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 159 total · 24 in this make and model · 85 as pilot in command · 87 in the last 90 days · 34 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 260° at 6 knots, gusting 20
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 91 °F, dew point 43 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.15 inHg
- Observed at
- KLKV, 1 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KLKV 232053Z AUTO 26006G20KT 7SM CLR 33/06 A3015
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on September 26, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 3.5 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 N185GG · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.