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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA66F0150

1965-07-23 SARASOTA, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7127Y

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-30

Year of manufacture

1963 · 2 years old at event

TCDS

A1EA · PIPER AIRCRAFT INC

Engine

LYCOMING IO-320 SERIES (150 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19631015

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A986DF

Registrant of record

SPENCER AVIONICS INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N7127Y Piper PA-30 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

PIPER PA-30 · N7127Y

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

SARASOTA-BRADENTN

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

045° / 5 kt

Temp

90° F

Aircraft history

Total time

185 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

3,500

Age

44

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 2729. Source file NTSB_1965_3_2729.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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