- Date
- June 30, 2026, 17:45 local (22:45 UTC)
- Place
- Paynesville, MN
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N8095FBeech A36
- Defining event
- Landing: Landing gear collapse
- Status
- Investigation ongoing
- Investigation class
- Class 3
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20260630011289A
- Case key
- 203301
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Preliminary report
What NTSB knew early in the investigation. It may change in the final report.
On June 30, 2026, about 1745 central daylight time, a Beech A36, N8095F, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident at Paynesville Municipal Airport (PEX), Paynesville, Minnesota. The private pilot and one passenger were not injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. The pilot reported that after landing on runway 29, the airplane began to oscillate vertically during the landing roll. The nose landing gear subsequently collapsed, and the airplane skidded to a stop on the runway. The pilot and passenger exited the airplane without injury. Examination by a Federal Aviation Administration inspector revealed that the nose landing gear had fractured and separated from the airplane. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the forward fuselage. The airplane was retained 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
- N8095F
- Reported as
- Beech A36
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- E-2695
- Built
- 1992
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Brown Dr Jay
- Registered owner
- Brown Dr Jay
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- PEX · Paynesville Municipal, runway 29, 3,302 × 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.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.