Accident Cessna 180F N2135Z, Wednesday 30 April 2025

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Date:	Wednesday 30 April 2025
Time:	19:50
Type:	Cessna 180F
Owner/operator:	Prop Blast Aviation LLC
Registration:	N2135Z
MSN:	18051235
Year of manufacture:	1963
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Substantial
Category:	Accident
Location:	Halliburton Field (DUC/KDUC), Duncan, OK - United States of America
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Private
Departure airport:	Duncan-Halliburton Airport, OK (DUC/KDUC)
Destination airport:	Duncan-Halliburton Airport, OK (DUC/KDUC)
Investigating agency:	NTSB
Confidence Rating:	Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities

Narrative:
On April 30, 2025, about 1950 central daylight time, a Cessna 180F airplane, N2135Z, sustained substantial damage when it was involved in an accident at the Halliburton Field Airport (DUC), Duncan, Oklahoma. The pilot and passenger were not injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 91 personal flight.

The pilot reported that the accident occurred while landing the tailwheel-equipped airplane on runway 17. The reported surface wind was from the west-southwest at 6-7 knots. The pilot reported that the airplane drifted right of the runway centerline during landing rollout, but his left rudder input did not correct for the right drift and the airplane departed off the right side of the runway. The airplane’s main landing gear sunk into soft turf which resulted in the airplane to nose over. The pilot and his passenger egressed from the airplane without injury. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the vertical stabilizer, rudder, and both wings.

A postaccident examination of the airplane’s rudder control system revealed that the left rudder cable was fractured. The fractured rudder cable and an associated pulley were removed from the airplane and shipped to the National Transportation Safety Board’s materials laboratory for additional examination and testing.

Accident investigation: