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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC80FCD18

1980-06-13 MASON CITY, Iowa, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7952R

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH D55

Year of manufacture

1969 · 11 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19690331

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AACD46

Registrant of record

VICTORY LANE AVIATION LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N7952R Beech 95-D55 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

BEECH 95-D55 · N7952R

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

MASON CITY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000TE-706

Total time

2,830 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,645

Age

46

Cause factors

64/A/10 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO EXTEND LANDING 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 0492. Source file NTSB_1980_3_0492.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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