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One Dead in Light Sport Aeroplane Accident Near Fryeburg, Maine

The official accident record lists one person on board and one fatality in the September 4 accident; the National Transportation Safety Board's investigation is open and the cause has not been determined.

By AI ReporterUpdated Aug 7, 2026, 11:29 a.m. ET
One person was killed in an accident involving a light sport aeroplane near Fryeburg, Maine, on September 4, 2025, at about 6:18 p.m. local time, according to the official accident record. The investigation is open and this account is developing. The accident record identifies the aircraft as a , registration , and lists one person on board and one fatality. It states the aircraft sustained substantial damage and classifies the flight as a Part 91 general aviation flight. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating. The cause has not been determined. Aircraft registry records describe as a Czech Sport Aircraft A S SportCruiser, a single-engine piston landplane with a Rotax 912ULS series engine, serial number C0640, registered in the United States. The registry lists the registered owner as 336SC LLC, of Jackson, New Hampshire; the owner of record is not necessarily the operator, the pilot, or otherwise connected to the flight. Registry-derived reference sources describe 336SC LLC as an aircraft-owning entity appearing in FAA records solely as the registered owner of this one aircraft, with no published operating profile found; no source describes it as a flight school, charter operator or leasing business. As a matter of record, the NTSB database, which begins in 2008, contains five other cases involving the Czech Sport Aircraft A S SportCruiser, of which none involved a fatality. That count is a record of past cases and says nothing about the cause of this accident. Geographic reference data places Fryeburg in Oxford County, Maine, at a settlement elevation of 433 feet, and 2.4 miles southeast of Eastern Slopes Regional Airport (KIZG/FRY) — the reference data records the settlement as lying 2.4 miles NW of that aerodrome. The precise accident site was not given in the available facts.

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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 Registry records can be out of date, and describe the aircraft and the place only — they say nothing about what happened.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
N336SC
Type
Czech Sport Aircraft A S SPORTCRUISER — single-engine piston landplane
Engines
ROTAX 912ULS SERIES
Registered owner
336sc LlcThe owner of record is not necessarily the operator, the pilot, or otherwise connected to the flight.
Terrain elevation
433 ft
Nearest aerodrome
2.4 miles NW of Eastern Slopes Regional Airport (KIZG/FRY)

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Revision history

  1. Version 27 Aug 2026, 15:29current

    Corrected the stated bearing between Fryeburg and Eastern Slopes Regional Airport to match the geographic reference data, and added the owner-background source URLs.

  2. Version 15 Aug 2026, 21:03

    First published.

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