- Date
- July 18, 2026, 09:00 local (16:00 UTC)
- Place
- Colusa, CA
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N7590KPiper PA-18
- Defining event
- Approach: Fuel exhaustion
- 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
- Case key
- 203423
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
On this page
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
- N7590K
- Reported as
- Piper PA-18
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18-307
- Built
- 1950
- Airframe hours
- 7,500
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 3, 2026 · 50 hours before
- Departed
- O86 · Trinity Center, CA
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- O08 · Colusa County Airport, runway 14, 3,034 × 59 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- ADS-B, Handheld GPS
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
- 150° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 72 °F, dew point 54 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.99 inHg
- Observed at
- KBAB, 29 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KBAB 181555Z AUTO 15004KT 10SM CLR 22/12 A2999 RMK AO2 SLP158 T02150115 $