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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC75FGM19

1974-11-17 MARTINSBURG, Pennsylvania, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4505K

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

NAVION NAVION A

Year of manufacture

1948 · 26 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR E185 SERIES (205 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560312

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A5752D

Registrant of record

PETREE GUY A

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N4505K Navion A 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

NAVION A · N4505K

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

BLAIR COUNTY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

00NAV-4-1505

Total time

3,328 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

259

Age

57

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 3730. Source file NTSB_1974_3_3730.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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