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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event UNK64X1894

1964-05-23 ROBSTOWN, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N19832

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

TAYLORCRAFT A

Engine

CONT MOTOR A40 SERIES (40 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A188BF

Registrant of record

HELGERSON DAVID

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N19832 Taylorcraft A 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

TAYLORCRAFT A · N19832

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

NUECES COUNTY

Kind of flying

B0

Aircraft history

Total time

2,010 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

B (B)

Total hours

1,600

Age

56

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS 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 1376. Source file NTSB_1964_3_1376.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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