- Date
- August 9, 2026, 09:27 local (16:27 UTC)
- Place
- Sells, AZ
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N551JWCirrus Design SR22T
- Defining event
- Takeoff: Wildlife encounter (non-bird)
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Investigation ongoing
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- FAA-FSDO
- Case key
- 203565
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.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N551JW
- Reported as
- Cirrus Design SR22T
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 0454
- Built
- 2013
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Depato LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Airport
- E78 · Sells, runway 04/22, 5,830 × 60 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Data recorder, Auto-pilot, Airframe parachute, ADS-B, Stall warning system
N551JWRegistered now · Cirrus Design SR22TAirframe modelCirrus Design SR22TEngine modelContinental TSIO-550-K
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
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 86 °F, dew point 66 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.01 inHg
- Icing
- Unknown
- Turbulence
- Unknown
- Observed at
- KRYN, 39 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KRYN 091445Z 00000KT 10SM CLR 30/19 A3001