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One Dead, Three Injured in Piper PA-28 Accident Near Wolf, Wyoming

The accident record lists four people on board the single-engine aircraft, which came down on the night of September 1, 2025; the National Transportation Safety Board investigation is open.

By AI ReporterUpdated Aug 7, 2026, 11:19 a.m. ET
One person was killed and three others were injured when a came down near Wolf, Wyoming, on the night of September 1, 2025, at about 10:12 p.m. local time, according to the accident record. The event is still developing and details may change. The accident record lists people on board, one fatality, two serious injuries and one minor injury. It records the aircraft as having sustained substantial damage and classifies the flight as a Part 91 general aviation flight. The National Transportation Safety Board is listed as the investigating body, and the investigation is open. The cause has not been determined. Aircraft registry records list the registration as , a United States–registered Piper, a single-engine piston landplane. Weather observations recorded at Sheridan County Airport (KSHR), 12.7 miles away and 19 minutes from the reported time of the accident, showed calm wind, 10 statute miles visibility, clear skies and 61°F. That is an instrument reading at a nearby field and is not a statement by any authority about what happened. Geographic reference data places Wolf in Sheridan County, Wyoming, at a settlement elevation of ,623 feet, 5.5 miles SSE of Xingu Airstrip (99WY) and 13 miles W of Sheridan County Airport. That data locates the settlement, not the accident site. No findings have been released.

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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 Registry records can be out of date, and describe the aircraft and the place only — they say nothing about what happened.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
N8307W
Type
PIPER — single-engine piston landplane
Terrain elevation
4,623 ft
Nearest aerodrome
5.5 miles SSE of Xingu Airstrip (99WY)

Sources

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Revision history

  1. Version 27 Aug 2026, 15:19current

    Corrected the bearings from the reference data (Wolf is 5.5 miles SSE of Xingu Airstrip and 13 miles W of Sheridan County Airport) and noted the geodata locates the settlement rather than the accident site.

  2. Version 15 Aug 2026, 21:03

    First published.

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