CEN25FA321 · Lancair NLA-275-FR-C
Five Lime Alpha Lancair NLA-275-FR-C · Accident en route
From Lakeway Airpark (3R9) to an unrecorded destination
Event
- NTSB case
- CEN25FA321
- 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
- 1 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- 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
Lancair NLA-275-FR-C
- Aircraft type
- Lancair NLA-275
- 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
- N345LA
- Operator
- Five Lime Alpha
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Lakeway Airpark (3R9), Lakeway, TXTo not recorded
- Aircraft age
- About 4 years (built 2021)
- 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
- Unknown or undetermined
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Destroyed
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Coordinates from the NTSB case API, which marks them as estimated or does not say; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
On August 18, 2025, about 2133 central daylight time, a Lancair NLA-275-FR-C airplane, N345LA, was destroyed when it was involved in an accident near Bradley, Arkansas. The pilot was fatally injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. A preliminary review of ADS-B data showed the airplane departed Lakeway Airpark, Lakeway, Texas, about 2011. The airplane then proceeded on a predominant northeast course. At 2018, the airplane reached an altitude of about 10,000 ft mean sea level (msl). After about 50 minutes, the airplane began a climb to an altitude of about 12,175 ft msl. After about 18 minutes, the airplane climbed to maximum altitude of about 14,125 ft msl, followed by a descent to about 12,375 ft msl. The airplane then began a climb from 12,375 ft msl to 12,675 ft msl, followed by a descent. About 2132 and at 11,800 ft msl, the airplane began a rapid right spiraling descent. Near the end of the descent, the data indicated that the airplane made a momentary level off and climb before a descending left turn into terrain (see figure 1).
Figure 1. Profile view of the final flight segment The main wreckage of the airplane was located in wooded terrain. The initial impact point was a pine tree about 200 ft from the main wreckage. The path from the initial impact point to the main wreckage was on a true heading of 066°. The debris field from the initial impact point to the main wreckage contained fragments of the right wing. The main wreckage was oriented with the airframe upright and the engine was inverted with a final heading of 180°. The airplane was destroyed by the impact sequence and the postimpact fire. The wreckage was recovered from the accident site and was transported to a secure location for future examination.
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record CEN25FA321
- Event ID
- 20250819200808
- Case number
- CEN25FA321
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Source notes (4)
- 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: local date, investigation status, coordinates. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date; the NTSB stores the UTC date 2025-08-19.
- API snapshot SHA-256: b2de45bcf25050465aca1b0269d25e8b34cc8b94d8ea9457c12b779572d97be7; retrieved 2026-09-15T09:08:09.078Z.