- Date
- September 19, 2026, 19:00 local (Sep 20, 2026, 02:00 UTC)
- Place
- Salem, OR · pvt grass air stip
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4139MPiper PA-12
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Nose over/nose down
- 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 Administraton
- FAA report
- 20260919012079A
- Case key
- 203856
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
- N4139M
- Reported as
- Piper PA-12
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 12-3038
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- OR87 · Blue Skies Farm
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
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 54 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.04 inHg
- Observed at
- KSLE, 5 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KSLE 192356Z VRB03KT 10SM CLR 21/12 A3004
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.