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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK66D0229

1966-03-22 DAVIS, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1660E

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

AERONCA 7AC

Year of manufacture

1946 · 20 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR C85 SERIES (85 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19551101

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A10A55

Registrant of record

VIA JOHNNIE W

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1660E Aeronca 7AC 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 7AC · N1660E

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

L

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

55° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,633 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

94

Age

51

Cause factors

64/C/48 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE 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 0584. Source file NTSB_1966_3_0584.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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