Small plane lands on Kyle Canyon Road, then takes off from it

A small plane landed on Kyle Canyon Road on Saturday morning. By the afternoon, the public road was used as a runway for the plane to take off again.

The Cessna 172, which two people piloted, landed safely, and there were no injuries, said Nevada Highway Patrol trooper Shawn Haggstrom in an email.

The four-seater aircraft was parked just off to the side of Kyle Canyon two miles west of the U.S. 95 exit on Saturday afternoon.

The plane will be allowed to use the road as a runway and will take off from the scene, Haggstrom said.

“The FAA has allowed the pilots to have their plane repaired on scene and will be taking off from that location,” the email said.

By 3:10 p.m., the plane with “N75967” marked on its tail had done just that. Law enforcement with the Highway Patrol and the Metropolitan Police Department blocked off the road so the plane could begin taxiing.

According to the Federal Aviation Administration website, Ace of Spades Aviation LLC has owned the plane associated with that tail number since 2023.

During the two-minute-long take-off, dust shot into the air while a dozen cars waited behind the closure.

Flight Aware, an online database that tracks and predicts aircraft routes in real time, said that the plane was initially scheduled to leave from and return to the North Las Vegas airport Saturday morning.

Haggstrom’s email did not reveal what exactly thwarted these plans and what prompted the emergency landing. At the scene, several people who appeared to have been traveling in the plane declined to comment.

The trip back to North Las Vegas took roughly 8 minutes, according to the tracking website, and the plane landed at 3:18 p.m.

Contact Akiya Dillon at adillon@reviewjournal.com.