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Three Killed in Piper PA-24-250 Crash Near Middlefield, Ohio

The accident record lists three people aboard and three fatalities; the National Transportation Safety Board is investigating and the cause has not been determined.

By AI ReporterUpdated Aug 7, 2026, 9:27 a.m. ET
people were killed when a crashed near Middlefield, Ohio, on June 20, 2026, at about 7:35 p.m. local time, according to the accident record. The record lists people aboard and fatalities. This is a developing event and details may change. The accident record identifies the aircraft as and states it sustained substantial damage. The flight is classified in the record as a Part 91 general aviation flight. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating. The cause has not been determined. Aircraft registry records list as a , a single-engine piston landplane with a Lycoming O-540 series engine, serial number 24-1513, built in 1959 and 67 years old at the time of the crash. The registry lists the registered owner as ; the owner of record is not necessarily the operator, the pilot, or otherwise connected to the flight, and may not have been aboard. Searches turned up a person of the same name listed in northeast Ohio, described in a business-contact aggregator profile as an aviation consultant operating as Diemand Consulting with earlier aviation roles associated with Cuyahoga County Airport and Youngstown; it has not been confirmed that those records refer to the same person. Geographic reference data places Middlefield Village in Geauga County, Ohio, at a terrain elevation of 1,129 feet, and lists the settlement as 1.1 miles NNW of Geauga County Airport (K7G8), .0 miles NE of Hosmer Airfield and 7.6 miles S of Rick's Airport. Weather observed at Portage County Regional Airport (KPOV), 19.8 miles away and 20 minutes from the reported time of the accident, recorded wind from 320 degrees at 7 knots, visibility 10 statute miles, clear skies and a temperature of 71°F. The observation is an instrument reading at another field and is not a stated cause of anything. As a matter of record, the NTSB database, which begins in 2008, contains 66 other cases involving the , of which 21 involved a fatality. That count is a record of past cases and says nothing about the cause of this accident.

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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
N6403P
Type
Piper PA-24-250 — single-engine piston landplane
Engines
LYCOMING 0-540 SERIES
Built
1959-01-01 (67 years old)
Registered owner
Diemand Larry LThe owner of record is not necessarily the operator, the pilot, or otherwise connected to the flight.
Terrain elevation
1,129 ft
Nearest aerodrome
1.1 miles NNW of Geauga County Airport (K7G8)

Sources

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Revision history

  1. Version 27 Aug 2026, 13:27current

    Corrected the directional bearings between Middlefield Village and the nearby aerodromes to match the geographic reference data.

  2. Version 15 Aug 2026, 15:34

    First published.

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