Accidents · NTSB records through September 30, 2026

Aviation accidents and incidents in California

94,304 NTSB cases since 1962, each on its own page in plain English with the NTSB's probable cause and narrative, linked to the aircraft's registry record and its model. So far in 2026: 1,198 cases, 215 of them fatal, 478 people killed. No one is named on these pages.

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Date	Case	Aircraft	Where	Outcome	Report
2021-03-27	WPR21LA167	American Legend Aircraft CO AL3 N712YP	Petaluma California	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2021-03-16	DCA21LA096	Bombardier INC CL-600-2C10 N706SK	Los Angeles California	serious injuries	Final
2021-03-16	WPR21LA133	Bell 206 N6133C	Lucerne Valley California	minor injuries substantial damage	Final
2021-03-13	WPR21LA130	Bell 206B N161BH	Laton California	minor injuries substantial damage	Final
2021-03-08	WPR21LA125	Amateur-built PITTS 12-EH N54LM	Red Bluff California	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2021-03-07	WPR21LA126	Cessna 190 N190RC	Camarillo California	minor injuries substantial damage	Final
2021-03-05	WPR21LA123	Aermacchi IMPALA MB-326M N155TP	Edwards California	serious injuries destroyed	Final
2021-03-03	WPR21LA121	Cessna 150J N60290	Lodi California	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2021-02-24	WPR21LA119	Mooney M20E N3254F	Livermore California	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2021-02-19	WPR21FA114	Piper PA-32-260 N57014	Los Angeles California	1 killed substantial damage	Final
2021-02-14	WPR21LA111	Piper Aircraft INC PA46R-350T N40TS	Tehachapi California	1 killed destroyed	Final
2021-02-13	WPR21LA110	Dassault FALCON900EX N823RC	San Diego California	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2021-02-05	WPR21LA106	Jabiru SP 250 N7850K	Thermal California	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2021-02-04	WPR21LA104	Cessna 150 N8107S	Riverside California	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2021-01-31	WPR21LA098	Cessna T182T N291FR	Crescent City California	minor injuries substantial damage	Final
2021-01-29	ENG21LA013 incident	Boeing 767-338 N363CM	Ontario California	minor damage	Final
2021-01-03	WPR21LA076	Extra Flugzeugbau GMBH EA 300/L N52NL	Santa Monica California	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-12-28	WPR21LA075	Beech 35 N5474D	Santa Ynez California	minor injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-12-21	WPR21LA072	Navion Navion A N4106K	Livermore California	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-12-13	WPR21LA069	Cessna 172 N5098E	San Diego California	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-12-04	WPR21LA080	Cessna 172 N737NB	Palm Springs California	serious injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-11-21	WPR21LA059	Cessna TU206 N878AH	Twentynine Palms California	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-11-17	WPR21LA071	CO Z COZY N82V	Compton California	minor injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-11-14	WPR21LA055	Cessna 152 N757PY	San Bernardino California	minor injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-11-12	WPR21FA048	Cessna 182 N939CP	Los Angeles California	1 killed destroyed	Final
2020-11-11	WPR21LA052	Bellanca 7GCBC N57517	Fallbrook California	minor injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-11-10	WPR21FA044	Piper PA38 N6380A	Grass Valley California	1 killed substantial damage	Final
2020-11-07	WPR21LA040	Schleicher ASW20C +1 more N18MA	Clayton California	serious injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-11-06	WPR21LA039	Agusta A109 N109EX	Los Angeles California	serious injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-11-06	WPR21LA049	Amateur-built RV-12 N975G	Byron California	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-11-03	WPR21LA064	Stinson 108-3 N6855M	El Monte California	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-10-23	WPR21LA022	Piper J3-C65 N98615	El Cajon California	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-10-21	WPR21LA019	Amateur-built III N1YX	Hayward California	serious injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-10-11	WPR21LA012	Cessna 150 N22963	Bishop California	minor injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-10-09	WPR21LA013	Amateur-built Sea Rey N32RK	Parker Dam California	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-10-04	WPR21LA003	Evolution Revo N449WB	Hawthorne California	1 killed substantial damage	Final
2020-09-27	WPR20LA319	Cessna T182 N157RC	Santa Barbara California	1 killed destroyed	Final
2020-09-25	WPR20LA325	Cessna T210 N300JS	Bridgeport California	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-09-24	WPR20LA320	Great Lakes 2T1A N3617L	San Diego California	serious injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-09-22	WPR20LA323	MD Helicopter 369 N509CG	Chemehuevi Valley California	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-09-20	WPR20LA311	North American B25N N7946C	Stockton California	serious injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-09-11	WPR20LA303	Navion B N37C	Van Nuys California	2 killed destroyed	Final
2020-09-04	WPR20LA295	Beech 35 N818S	Three Rivers California	2 killed destroyed	Final
2020-09-03	WPR20CA296	Cessna Ector 305A N1832	Amboy California	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-08-31	WPR20CA312	Beechcraft C90A N982SB	Fortuna California	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-08-27	WPR20LA289	Beech A36 N1550G	Redding California	2 killed destroyed	Final
2020-08-26	WPR20LA288	Cessna 210 N9540T	Chino California	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-08-24	WPR20CA284	Bell 205 N386HQ	Laverne California	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-08-19	DCA20LA138	Boeing 767 N146FE	Los Angeles California	serious injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-08-19	WPR20LA280	Arrow-Falcon Exporters, Inc. UH-1H N711GH	Coalinga California	1 killed destroyed	Final

About these pages

The records come from the NTSB's public aviation accident database, refreshed here every week. Each case has a permanent page at eflight.com/accidents/<case number>; the plain-English summary is built from the NTSB's coded fields, and the probable cause and narrative are the NTSB's own words. "Preliminary" means the investigation is still open; the final report usually follows within one to two years, and the page updates when it does. Pilots, passengers and other people involved are never named. Where the aircraft is still on the U.S. register, the page links to its registry record; where the model has a page here, it links to that too.