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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN66F0178

1965-11-25 TUCSON, Arizona, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8699Q

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH S35

Year of manufacture

1964 · 1 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19641110

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ABF3E8

Registrant of record

SMITH SIDNEY R TRUSTEE

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8699Q BEECHCRAFT S35 None

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

BEECHCRAFT S35 · N8699Q

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

TUCSON

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

180° / 25 kt

Temp

63° F

Aircraft history

Total time

461 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

4,314

Age

49

Cause factors

64/A/13 A
PILOT IN COMMAND INADVERTENTLY RETRACTED GEAR Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 3519. Source file NTSB_1965_3_3519.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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