- Date
- July 18, 2026, 11:53 local (17:53 UTC)
- Place
- Sapinero, CO
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N489LAMaule M-4-180V
- Defining event
- Enroute-climb to cruise: 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
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20260718011109A
- Case key
- 203420
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
- N489LA
- Reported as
- Maule M-4-180V
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 47007T
- Airframe hours
- 630
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Red Baron LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 21, 2025 · 30 hours before
- Departed
- C24 · Creede, CO
- Destination
- OIN · Oberlin, KS
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, 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.
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 46 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.43 inHg
- Icing
- Unknown
- Turbulence
- Unknown
- Observed at
- KC24
- METAR
- METAR KC24 181815Z AUTO VRB04KT 10SM CLR 24/08 A3043 RMK AO2 T02400078 $=
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.