- Date
- August 27, 2026, 18:20 local (Aug 28, 2026, 01:20 UTC)
- Place
- Big Bear, CA · airport environment
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N43PKKrugh Patrick M Steen Skybolt
- Defining event
- Approach-VFR pattern base: Aerodynamic stall/spin
- 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
- 203701
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
- N43PK
- Reported as
- Krugh Patrick M Steen Skybolt
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 2004
- Airframe hours
- 875
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Aerobatic; Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Continuous airworthiness · November 22, 2025
- Airport
- L35 · Big Bear City Airport, runway 26, 5,850 × 75 ft, asphalt
N43PKRegistered now · Krugh Patrick M STEEN SKYBOLTAirframe modelKrugh Patrick M STEEN SKYBOLTEngine modelLycoming AEIO-360 series
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
- 300° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 9 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 77 °F, dew point 45 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.28 inHg
- Observed at
- KL35
- METAR
- METAR KL35 280115Z AUTO 30007KT 9SM CLR 25/07 A3028 RMK AO2 T02540074