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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC75DCD12

1974-07-27 KEOKUK, Iowa, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2009Q

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 177RG

Year of manufacture

1973 · 1 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING IO-360-A1B6D (200 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19730919

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A195A5

Registrant of record

TRANBY WAYNE A

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N2009Q Cessna 177RG 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

CESSNA 177RG · N2009Q

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

KEOKUK MUNI

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

000177RG0409

Total time

244 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

211

Age

38

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 2320. Source file NTSB_1974_3_2320.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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