- Date
- July 7, 2026, 14:30 local (20:30 UTC)
- Place
- Buffalo, WY
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N1097EAeronca 7AC
- Defining event
- Approach-VFR go-around: Controlled flight into terr/obj (CFIT)
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Investigation ongoing
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- FAA report
- 20260707008519A
- Case key
- 203354
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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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
- N1097E
- Reported as
- Aeronca 7AC
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 7AC-4629
- Built
- 1946
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- BYG
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
- 30° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 54 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.11 inHg
- Observed at
- KBYG
- METAR
- METAR KBYG 071953Z AUTO 03004KT 10SM CLR 26/12 A3011 RMK AO2 SLP133 T02610117
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.