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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event UNK64X1120

1964-03-31 COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N3803E

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH 76

Year of manufacture

1981

Engine

LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19810730

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A45E10

Registrant of record

SORBI AVIATION INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N3803E Aeronca 11AC 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

AERONCA 11AC · N3803E

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

368

Age

39

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
64/B/15 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO SEE AND AVOID OBJECTS OR OBSTRUCTIONS
88/B/07 B
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPER EMERGENCY PROCEDURES

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 0230. Source file NTSB_1964_2_0230.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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