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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK78DVG41

1978-05-25 NAPA, California, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N3195

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

VAN'S AIRCRAFT RV-4

Year of manufacture

2001

Engine

LYCOMING IO-320 SERIES (150 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20260305

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A36B47

Registrant of record

GORHAM LUKE E

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N3195 STARDUSTER SA-300 Fatal

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

STARDUSTER SA-300 · N3195

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EJ

Operator type

D

Airport

NAPA COUNTY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

200° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000073

Total time

388 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

12,482

Age

50

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 3 1134. Source file NTSB_1978_3_1134.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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