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Three Killed in Piper PA-23-250 Accident Near Condon, Montana

An NTSB accident record lists three fatalities in the October 17 crash of a twin-engine Piper near Condon; the cause has not been determined.

By AI ReporterUpdated Aug 7, 2026, 9:17 a.m. ET
people aboard a twin-engine were killed in an accident near Condon, Montana, at about 10:15 p.m. local time on October 17, 2025, according to the NTSB accident record. The record lists souls on board and fatalities. The investigation is open and developing, and the cause has not been determined. The accident record identifies the aircraft as , lists the operator as , classifies the flight as a Part 91 general aviation flight, and states that the aircraft sustained substantial damage. The National Transportation Safety Board is the investigating body. Aircraft registry records describe as a , a twin-engine piston landplane with Lycoming IO-540 series engines, serial number 27-8154019, registered in the United States. The registry lists the registered owner as ; the owner of record is not necessarily the operator of the flight, the pilot, or otherwise connected to it. Web searches for an aviation entity of that name at the Condon, Montana address located no public records establishing what it is or does, returning only an unrelated Florida HVAC contractor of the same name and generic geographic results. Geographic reference data locates the settlement of Condon in Missoula County, Montana, at a terrain elevation of ,717 feet, 0.9 miles NNW of Condon USFS Airport (S04), 8.8 miles SSE of Crown Ranch Airpark (42MT) and 17 miles WNW of Hoversland Airport (MT19). That data is geocoded from the place name and locates the settlement only, not the accident site, and bears on no finding about what happened. The NTSB database, which begins in 2008, contains 25 other cases involving the , of which 11 involved a fatality. That is a count of records and says nothing about the cause of this accident. The investigation remains open.

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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 Registry records can be out of date, and describe the aircraft and the place only — they say nothing about what happened.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
N2345R
Type
Piper PA-23-250 — twin-engine piston landplane
Engines
LYCOMING IO-540 SER
Registered owner
Blue Wave Air LlcThe owner of record is not necessarily the operator, the pilot, or otherwise connected to the flight.
Terrain elevation
3,717 ft
Nearest aerodrome
0.9 miles SSE of Condon USFS Airport (S04)

Sources

No sources recorded.

Revision history

  1. Version 27 Aug 2026, 13:17current

    Corrected the garbled geographic paragraph to state the reference-data bearings from the settlement and clarify it locates Condon rather than the accident site; added headline and dek.

  2. Version 15 Aug 2026, 19:55

    First published.

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