- Date
- September 26, 2026, 10:00 local (16:00 UTC)
- Place
- Livingston, MT
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N185BZCessna A185F
- Defining event
- Maneuvering-low-alt flying: Loss of control in flight
- 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
- FAA report
- 20260926013139A
- Case key
- 203886
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
- N185BZ
- Reported as
- Cessna A185F
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18504299
- Built
- 1981
- Airframe hours
- 2,477.7
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Bret Walker, doing business as Clear Blue Sky Aviation LLC
- Registered owner
- Clear Blue Sky Aviation LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · March 26, 2026
- Departed
- Klvm · Livingston, MT
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- N/A
- Equipment
- ADS-B, Auto-pilot, Electronic primary flight display
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
- 340° at 5 knots, gusting 15
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 54 °F, dew point 30 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.04 inHg
- Icing
- Unknown
- Turbulence
- Unknown
- Observed at
- KLVM, 5 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KLVM 261553Z AUTO 34005G15KT 10SM CLR 12/M01 A3004 RMK AO2 SLP137 T01221011
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.