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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW71FPD63

1971-06-15 DENTON, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N541T

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

GLASAIR SII

Year of manufacture

2016

Engine

LYCOMING O-360 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20160518

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A6DD4C

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N541T Beech N35 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

BEECH N35 · N541T

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

DENTON

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000D-6708

Total time

2,788 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,351

Age

30

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 2046. Source file NTSB_1971_3_2046.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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