NTSB CAROL · Event
Event CHI81FEC11
Registry · N1430B
FAA Aircraft Registry record.
Make / Model
LUSCOMBE 8F
Year of manufacture
1948 · 33 years old at event
Engine
CONT MOTOR C85 SERIES (85 hp)
Seats / Engines
2 seats · 1 engine
Last airworthiness date
19550813
ADS-B equipped
Yes — Mode-S A0B02F
Registrant of record
LUTZ TERRY L
Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).
Aircraft involved
Historical record (pre-1982)
NTSB recorded this accident in the pre-1982 coded-field schema — structured fields rather than free-text narrative. Decoded codes use established NTSB single-letter taxonomies; cause factors remain verbatim pending the Form 6120.4 codebook lookup.
Aircraft
LUSCOMBE 8E · N1430B
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
EB
Operator type
D
Airport
LARSEN FIELD
Kind of flying
B0
Weather at impact
Sky
CLEAR
Wind
330° / 5 kt
Temp
30° F
Aircraft history
Serial number
000000006057
Total time
1,138 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
Commercial
Total hours
4,421
Age
27
Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)
ENG SPUTTERED.NO CARB ACCELERATING PUMP.
Investigator remarks
SHORT FLD LDG,HI ANGLE OF DESCENT,SLOW AIRSPEED.
Cause factors
- 64/C/21 C PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS Cause
- 64/B/25 B PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF
Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table). Each row shows the raw triplet, modifier (Cause / Factor / etc.), category, and specific code.
Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket
3 0203.
Source file
NTSB_1981_3_0203.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
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- NASA NTRS 2019 · Conference Paper
Transonic Experimental Observations of Abrupt Wing Stall on an F/A-l8E Model
A transonic wind tunnel test of an 8% F/A-18E model was conducted in the NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) 16 ft Transonic Tunnel (16-ft TT) to investigate on-surface flow physics during stall.
- NASA NTRS 2019 · Conference Paper
Transonic Experimental Observations of Abrupt Wing Stall on an F/A-18E Model (Invited)
A transonic wind tunnel test of an 8% F/A-18E model was conducted in the NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) 16 ft Transonic Tunnel (16-ft TT) to investigate on-surface flow physics during stall.
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