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Event SEA74FYC53

1974-05-22 HILLSBORO, Oregon, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8290R

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BELLANCA 17-30A

Year of manufacture

1972 · 2 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19720914

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AB54B2

Registrant of record

HUNT GEORGE RICHARD

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8290R Bellanca 17-30A 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

BELLANCA 17-30A · N8290R

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

ED

Operator type

Business

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

020° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000030481

Total time

247 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

902

Age

49

Investigator remarks

RAN OUT OF FUEL IN AUX TANK. OTR TANKS FULL.

Cause factors

64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/19 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INATTENTIVE TO FUEL SUPPLY Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
64/B/16 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED
64/K/71 K
PILOT IN COMMAND MISUSED OR FAILED TO USE FLAPS Joint factor

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 2162. Source file NTSB_1974_3_2162.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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