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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA66D0476

1966-03-27 MILLINGTON, Tennessee, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7534E

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CHAMPION 7FC

Year of manufacture

1958 · 8 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR C90 SERIES (95 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19580808

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AA2817

Registrant of record

MATTA FIGUEROA EDUARDO

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N7534E Champion 7FC Minor

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 · N7534E

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

SHELBY COUNTY

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

045° / 5 kt

Temp

49° F

Aircraft history

Total time

3,324 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

42

Age

41

Cause factors

64/C/25 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause

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 0600. Source file NTSB_1966_3_0600.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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