- Date
- July 16, 2026, 10:20 local (17:20 UTC)
- Place
- Cashmere, WA · Cashmere - Dryden Airport
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N498TETag Aviation PTY Titanium Explorer
- Defining event
- Takeoff: Loss of control on ground
- Status
- Investigation ongoing
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- Case key
- 203411
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
- N498TE
- Reported as
- Tag Aviation PTY Titanium Explorer (115HP)
- Category
- Helicopter, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 0049-0718
- Built
- 2018
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- 8S2
N498TERegistered now · Toevs Christine F G TOEVS TITANIUM EXPLRAirframe modelToevs Christine F G TOEVS TITANIUM EXPLREngine modelRotax 914UL
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.