CEN25LA305 · Stolp Starduster SA300
Stolp Starduster SA300 · Accident: loss of engine power (total) en route
From Smith Field (SLG) to Classic Airstrip (23AR)
Event
- NTSB case
- CEN25LA305
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Ongoing
- API-reported fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Stolp Starduster SA300
- Aircraft type
- Stolp Starduster SA300
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N983AM
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Smith Field (SLG), Siloam Springs, ARTo Classic Airstrip (23AR), Jonesboro, AR
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- En route · cruise
- Defining eventThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Loss of engine power (total)
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
On August 6, 2025 about 1552 central daylight time, a Stolp Starduster SA 300 airplane was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Marshall, Arkansas. The pilot was not injured. The airplane was operated under the provisions of Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 as a personal flight. According to the pilot, he purchased the airplane earlier in the day and performed about 6 takeoffs and landings before departing Smith Field Airport (SLG), Siloam Springs, Arkansas for Classic Airstrip (23AR), Jonesboro, Arkansas. Before departing SLG he topped off the main tank, which holds 27 gallons of fuel and the auxiliary tank, which holds 17 gallons of fuel for a total of 44 gallons of fuel. About 40 minutes after departing SLG, the airplane had a sudden and total loss of power. The pilot attempted to troubleshoot by manipulating the throttle and switching fuel tanks, but the power was unable to be restored. The pilot performed an off airport landing to a field striking the right wing on a fence post during the landing sequence. The airplane flipped over and came to rest inverted. The wings and fuselage were substantially damaged. The pilot stated that the airplane had a conditional inspection on July 1, 2025, and this was the first flight after the inspection was performed other than the 6 takeoffs and landings he made prior to departing SLG. The airplane was retained for further examination.
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record CEN25LA305
- Event ID
- 20250806200726
- Case number
- CEN25LA305
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Source notes (5)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: fe09bf9dec0efa538d0ac910dd7ab26f6b6e2c9f03ccdc9912c6e2d956a713dc; retrieved 2026-09-16T20:11:12.402Z.
- Corrected after a review of the NTSB narrative, which states these values explicitly: departure. Incomplete city name; SLG is Smith Field, Siloam Springs, AR, as the narrative names it.