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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC71FDQ09

1970-08-17 STURGIS, South Dakota, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9939Y

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CHAMPION 7GCB

Year of manufacture

1962 · 8 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19620601

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ADE172

Registrant of record

GEHRKE WALTER L

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N9939Y Aeronca 7GCB 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

AERONCA 7GCB · N9939Y

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

E

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Z

Operator type

D

Airport

STURGIS

Kind of flying

DZ

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000140

Total time

255 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

ZA (ZA)

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

PRESUMED.

Investigator remarks

STOLEN ACFT.FOUND APRX 1000FT FRM RWY.INJ INDEX

Cause factors

84/A/I A
MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/26 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS STOLEN OR UNAUTHORIZED USE OF AIRCRAFT Joint 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 3514. Source file NTSB_1970_3_3514.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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