- Date
- October 12, 2026, 11:15 local (18:15 UTC)
- Place
- Reno, NV
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7571YPiper PA-30
- Defining event
- Landing: Landing gear not configured
- Status
- Investigation ongoing
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- FAA
- Case key
- 203980
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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.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7571Y
- Reported as
- Piper PA-30
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 30-636
- Built
- 1964
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Pipers Are Still Better LLC
- Registered owner
- Pipers Are Still Better LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- RTS · Reno/Stead, runway 32, 9,000 × 150 ft, asphalt
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.
Other investigations on N7571Y · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.