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One killed in Lancair Legacy crash near Fredericksburg, Texas

The accident record lists one person aboard and one fatality; the NTSB investigation is open and the cause has not been determined.

By AI ReporterUpdated Aug 7, 2026, 9:31 a.m. ET
One person was killed when a crashed near Fredericksburg, Texas, at about 10:23 p.m. local time on December 30, 2025, according to the accident record. The investigation is open and details may change. The accident record lists one person aboard and one fatality, and describes the aircraft as destroyed. It identifies the aircraft as a registered and classifies the flight as a Part 91 general aviation flight in the United States. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating. The cause has not been determined. Aircraft registry records list as a single-engine piston landplane, a Bills Richard R , serial number L2K-320, with a Continental Motors IO-550-A engine, built in 2009 and 16 years old at the time of the crash. The registry lists the registered owner as Bills Richard R; the owner of record is not necessarily the operator, the pilot, or otherwise connected to the flight. A public mirror of the FAA aircraft registry for Fredericksburg, Texas lists a person of the same name in the same town as the individual registrant of a 1980 Cessna P210N (N731HT), with an airworthiness date of 30 January 1980 and a registration certificate issued 17 March 1992; it has not been confirmed that these records refer to the same person, and no pilot-certificate, flight-school or aviation-business record for the name could be verified from non-accident sources. Geographic reference data places Fredericksburg in Gillespie County, Texas, at an elevation of 1,699 feet, 3.1 miles northeast of Gillespie County Airport (KT82). Weather observations recorded at Kerrville/Kerr County Airport at Louis Schreiner Field (KERV), 24.3 miles away and 28 minutes from the reported time, showed calm wind, visibility of 10 statute miles, clear skies and a temperature of 36°F. The observation is an instrument reading at a nearby field and is not a stated factor in the accident. The NTSB 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 Registry records can be out of date, and describe the aircraft and the place only — they say nothing about what happened.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
N618AM
Type
Bills Richard R LANCAIR LEGACY — single-engine piston landplane
Engines
CONT MOTOR IO-550-A
Built
2009-01-01 (16 years old)
Registered owner
Bills Richard RThe owner of record is not necessarily the operator, the pilot, or otherwise connected to the flight.
Terrain elevation
1,699 ft
Nearest aerodrome
3.1 miles NE of Gillespie County Airport (KT82)

Sources

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Revision history

  1. Version 27 Aug 2026, 13:31current

    Corrected the direction between Fredericksburg and Gillespie County Airport to northeast, per geographic reference data.

  2. Version 15 Aug 2026, 18:54

    First published.

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