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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW68D0010

1967-06-13 SAN MARCOS, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8534H

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

NORTH AMERICAN NAVION

Year of manufacture

1947 · 20 years old at event

TCDS

A-782 · SIERRA HOTEL AERO INC

Engine

CONT MOTOR E185 SERIES (205 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560225

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ABB569

Registrant of record

VANDERVLUGT HANS

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8534H Navion A 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

NAVION A · N8534H

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

SAN MARCOS

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

2,500 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

2,050

Age

58

Cause factors

64/A/10 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO EXTEND LANDING 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 1790. Source file NTSB_1967_3_1790.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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