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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC66F0095

1965-07-17 MANCHESTER, Vermont, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N32168

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

WACO UPF-7

Year of manufacture

1941 · 24 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR W670 SERIES (250 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560211

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A37552

Registrant of record

NC 32168 LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N32168 Waco UPF7 Serious

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

WACO UPF7 · N32168

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

EQUINOX

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

330° / 10 kt

Temp

85° F

Aircraft history

Total time

3,077 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

600

Age

51

Cause factors

64/A/16 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED 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 2 0354. Source file NTSB_1965_2_0354.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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