- Date
- July 18, 2026, 15:00 local (22:00 UTC)
- Place
- North Plains, OR
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N922SBLet L-23 Super Blanik
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Hard landing
- Status
- Investigation ongoing
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- Case key
- 203438
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
- N922SB
- Reported as
- Let L-23 Super Blanik
- Category
- Glider
- Serial number
- 917922
- Built
- 1991
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Willamette Valley Soaring Club Inc
- Registered owner
- Willamette Valley Soaring Club Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- None
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- 1OR4 · North Plains, runway 09/27, 2,000 × 200 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- None
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
- Wind
- 10° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 55 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.11 inHg
- Observed at
- KHIO, 4 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KHIO 182153Z COR 01008KT 10SM CLR 24/13 A3011 RMK AO2 SLP193 T02440133