- Date
- September 30, 2026, 09:00 local (16:00 UTC)
- Place
- Chelan, WA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Phase of flight
- Standing
- Aircraft
- N480MTEnstrom Helicopter 480
- Defining event
- Standing: Miscellaneous/other
- Status
- Investigation ongoing
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- FAA report
- 20260930013249I
- Case key
- 203961
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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
- N480MT
- Reported as
- Enstrom Helicopter 480
- Flight
- Business
- Operator
- Cline Air Services LLC
- Registered owner
- Cline Air Services LLC
N480MTRegistered now · Enstrom Helicopter 480Airframe modelEnstrom Helicopter 480Engine modelAllison 250 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.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.