Atlas / NTSB / LAX78DUM29

NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX78DUM29

1978-06-29 BRAWLEY, California, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N45234

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

NAVAL AIRCRAFT FACTORY N3N-3

Year of manufacture

1940 · 38 years old at event

Engine

P&W R-985 SERIES (450 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560621

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A57C68

Registrant of record

DB AERO INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N45234 NAVAL FCTY N3N-3 Serious

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

NAVAL FCTY N3N-3 · N45234

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DG

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Airport

VAL-AIR DUSTER

Kind of flying

CA

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

248° / 4 kt

Temp

82° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001977

Total time

6,131 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

19,348

Age

49

Cause factors

64/A/15 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO SEE AND AVOID OBJECTS OR OBSTRUCTIONS 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 1611. Source file NTSB_1978_3_1611.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Beyond the agency record

Search this event elsewhere.

Pre-filled searches into the sources where news + community discussion of aviation events lives. External sources are reported, not agency. Treat them as signal that something happened, not as fact about what happened.

TallyAero Live Wire Aviation press

Entity-clustered aviation events in the press — last 24 hr + 30-day archive.

NTSB CAROL Agency ↗

Official agency record + docket.

NTSB Docket Agency ↗

Investigative docket: factual reports, photos, transcripts.

Aviation Safety Network Aviation press ↗

Long-running aviation incident database (Flight Safety Foundation).

Kathryn's Report Aviation press ↗

Community NTSB synthesis blog — often has photos and witness reports.

Aviation Herald Aviation press ↗

Gold-standard aviation incident blog.