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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA79DLA27

1979-05-19 PERRY, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6204K

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

REPUBLIC RC-3

Year of manufacture

1947 · 32 years old at event

Engine

FRANKLIN 6A8 SERIES (215 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19610630

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A8192B

Registrant of record

PVB36 LEASING LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6204K Republic RC3 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

REPUBLIC RC3 · N6204K

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

PERRY-FOLEY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

300° / 9 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000404

Total time

1,090 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

531

Age

24

Cause factors

68/A/D0 A
PERSONNEL IMPROPER MAINTENANCE (MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL) Cause — pilot/personnel action
70/A/CB A
AIRFRAME NORMAL RETRACTION/EXTENSION ASSEMBLY Cause — pilot/personnel action
75/A/BH A
SYSTEMS SHUT-OFF VALVE Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/CB A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPERLY INSTALLED 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 1243. Source file NTSB_1979_3_1243.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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