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One Killed in Cessna T182T Accident Near Augusta, Arkansas

An NTSB accident record lists one fatality and one minor injury among the two people on board a single-engine Cessna that was substantially damaged on August 7, 2025; the investigation is open.

By AI ReporterWritten Aug 5, 2026, 7:06 p.m. ET
One person was killed and another sustained minor injuries when a was involved in an accident near Augusta, Arkansas, on August 7, 2025, at about 3:37 p.m. local time, according to the National Transportation Safety Board accident record. This is a developing matter and details may change. The accident record lists people on board, one fatality and one minor injury, and states that the aircraft sustained substantial damage. The flight is classified in the record as a Part 91 general aviation flight. The aircraft is identified in the record as . The cause has not been determined; the NTSB investigation is open. Aircraft registry records describe as a single-engine piston landplane, serial number T18208094, with a Lycoming 0-540 series engine, registered in the United States. The registry lists the registered owner as Dans Land Llc; the owner of record is not necessarily the operator, the pilot, or otherwise connected to the flight. Arkansas state business records list an entity named DANS LAND, L.L.C., incorporated in Arkansas on 08/11/1998 under filing number 100161869, with a status of Revoked, and name Danny Looper and Cheryl Looper as managers; it could not be confirmed that this state-registered entity is the same organisation as the aircraft's registered owner, and the record gives no indication of the company's line of business. No finding connects the owner of record or its named managers to this accident. As a matter of record, the NTSB database, which begins in 2008, contains 31 other cases involving the , of which 5 involved a fatality. That count is not a safety rate and says nothing about the cause of this accident. Geographic reference data places Augusta in Woodruff County, Arkansas, at a settlement elevation of 226 ft, about 1.3 miles ESE of Lesters Field (US-0374) and roughly 5.3 miles east of Woodruff County Airport (KM60); the reference point is the town itself, not the accident site.

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Reference data

From aircraft and geographic registries, not from the news sources. Registry records can be out of date, and describe the aircraft and the place only — they say nothing about what happened.

Registration
N35370
Type
Cessna T182T — single-engine piston landplane
Engines
LYCOMING 0-540 SERIES
Registered owner
Dans Land LlcThe owner of record is not necessarily the operator, the pilot, or otherwise connected to the flight.
Terrain elevation
226 ft
Nearest aerodrome
1.3 miles WNW of Lesters Field (US-0374)

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Revision history

  1. Version 27 Aug 2026, 14:42

    Corrected the geographic bearings for Augusta relative to Lesters Field and Woodruff County Airport to match the reference data.

  2. Version 15 Aug 2026, 23:06current

    First published.

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