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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA68F0131

1967-09-06 NORTH BEND, Oregon, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2728G

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

FAIRCHILD SA227-AC

Year of manufacture

1989

Engine

AIRESEARCH TPE331 SERIES (904 hp)

Seats / Engines

12 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19890202

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A2B161

Registrant of record

CBG LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N2728G Champion 7KCAB 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

CHAMPION 7KCAB · N2728G

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

NORTH BEND

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

360° / 7 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

26 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

3,800

Age

39

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 0825. Source file NTSB_1967_2_0825.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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