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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW74DRG78

1974-04-19 RIVIERA, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7825C

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

GRUMMAN F8F-2

Year of manufacture

1948 · 26 years old at event

Engine

P & W R-2800 SERIES (2000 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19800123

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AA9AFE

Registrant of record

AMERICAN AIRPOWER HERITAGE FLY MUSM

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N7825C Grumman F8F-2 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

GRUMMAN F8F-2 · N7825C

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Kind of flying

DC

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000122674

Total time

858 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

8,000

Age

50

Investigator remarks

FUEL TNK FND EMPTY,NO EVIDENCE OF SPILLAGE.

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/19 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INATTENTIVE TO FUEL SUPPLY Cause
88/C/63 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION Cause
83/B/F B
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN

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 0951. Source file NTSB_1974_3_0951.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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