Cessna 180F N2135Z

Summary

On 1 May 2025 at about 00:50 local time, a Cessna 180F registered N2135Z, operated by Prop Blast Aviation, LLC, was involved in an accident near Duncan, Oklahoma, United States. 2 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. No probable cause has been published yet; this accident is still under investigation.

Date

1 May 2025 at 00:50

Classification

Accident

Location

Duncan, Oklahoma, United States

Nearest airport

Halliburton Field Airport (DUC)

Coordinates

34.4709, -97.9599

Aircraft

Cessna 180F

Registration

N2135Z

Category

Airplane

Year built

1963

Engines

1

Operator

Prop Blast Aviation, LLC

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Personal

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Duncan → Duncan

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

CEN25LA173

Nobody was injured.

The NTSB has not published a probable cause for this record. The investigation is still open; a final report usually follows one to two years after the accident.

Nothing about the cause is stated here that is not in the source record.

Read the full NTSB narrative

On April 30, 2025, about 1950 central daylight time, a Cessna 180F airplane, N2135Z, sustained substantial damage when it was involved in an accident at the Halliburton Field Airport (DUC), Duncan, Oklahoma. The pilot and passenger were not injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 91 personal flight. The pilot reported that the accident occurred while landing the tailwheel-equipped airplane on runway 17. The reported surface wind was from the west-southwest at 6-7 knots. The pilot reported that the airplane drifted right of the runway centerline during landing rollout, but his left rudder input did not correct for the right drift and the airplane departed off the right side of the runway. The airplane’s main landing gear sunk into soft turf which resulted in the airplane to nose over. The pilot and his passenger egressed from the airplane without injury. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the vertical stabilizer, rudder, and both wings. A postaccident examination of the airplane’s rudder control system revealed that the left rudder cable was fractured. The fractured rudder cable and an associated pulley were removed from the airplane and shipped to the National Transportation Safety Board’s materials laboratory for additional examination and testing.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.