Small plane crashes near North Perry Airport. Here’s a look at other accidents
A small airplane crashed onto a lawn just outside North Perry Airport midday Friday near a psychiatric hospital, police say. Those onboard were treated for their injuries.
Around 11:30 a.m., the Pembroke Pines Police Department and Fire Rescue rushed to the crash just north of South Florida State Hospital, 800 East Cypress Drive. All occupants of the plane are “conscious and breathing.”
Police added no one else was injured, and traffic nearby should not be affected.
There were two people on board the fixed wing, single-engine Cessna 172P, according to the FAA and its aircraft database. The registered owner is Trajectory Aviation LLC., based in Hollywood. READ MORE: A little boy, killed by a plane, kept a teddy bear by his side. His mom is on a mission
Trajectory Aviation offers flight training as well as drone and manned aircraft imaging, its website reads. The plane is pictured in the website’s training section. The company could not immediately provide comments about the crash.
On the plane’s tail was the logo of Blue Sky Aviation, a flight school at North Perry. Pembroke Pines Commissioner Jay Schwartz is the president and COO. Blue Sky is a partner of Trajectory Aviation, Blue Sky’s website says.
According to FlightAware, the plane initially left North Perry Airport at 7:57 a.m. and landed at Okeechobee County Airport at 9:04 a.m. It promptly took off again from Okeechobee at 9:41 a.m. and was on its way back to North Perry.
Years of crashes from North Perry
North Perry Airport has for years been synonymous with plane crashes or mishaps. The four-runway airport, owned by the Broward County Aviation Department, is often used by flight-training schools and small planes owned by residents.
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Several planes have gone down from or near the airport this decade:
- In August, a plane that departed from North Perry crash-landed in the Everglades. No one was injured.
- In July, a small plane flying into the airport crashed into a tree in a Pembroke Pines neighborhood, hospitalizing two adults and two teens.
- In March 2025, a small plane that took off from North Perry Airport made an emergency landing on a field at a Miramar elementary school. No one was seriously hurt.
- In October 2022, a small plane that had taken off from the airport crashed into a home in Miramar while a mother and her 2-year-old son were inside. The pilot and an aviation student on board were killed.
- In March 2021, a 4-year-old Taylor Bishop was killed when a small plane that had just taken off from the airport nosedived into his mother’s SUV. His mother survived.
- On May 2020, a plane crashed into the Miramar Commons shopping center, killing an aviation student and injuring a flight instructor.
- In November 2020, a pilot was killed when he had engine trouble shortly after takeoff from North Perry Airport.
- In December 2020, one person was hurt in a crash after a plane had just taken off from the airport.
This is a developing story.
This story was originally published May 29, 2026 at 12:58 PM.
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