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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX66D0021

1965-07-11 BAKERSFIELD, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4838E

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CHAMPION 7FC

Engine

CONT MOTOR C90 SERIES (95 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19590120

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A5F733

Registrant of record

ROBERTS CALVIN D

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N4838E Champion 7FC 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

CHAMPION 7FC · N4838E

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

MEADOWS

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

1,400 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

44

Age

30

Cause factors

64/C/25 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 1956. Source file NTSB_1965_3_1956.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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