- Date
- August 8, 2026, 10:00 local (17:00 UTC)
- Place
- Reno, NV · open flat desert terrain
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N185Cessna A185F
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Loss of control on ground
- 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
- 203566
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
- N185
- Reported as
- Cessna A185F
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18502582
- Built
- 1974
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Jcl Corp
- Registered owner
- Jcl Corp
- Destination
- Same as departure
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
- Variable at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 14,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 45 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.20 inHg
- Observed at
- KRNO, 38 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KRNO 081655Z VRB04KT 10SM SCT100 BKN140 29/07 A3020 RMK AO2 SLP157 FU DSNT W T02940067 $