Pitts S-1S N3R

2 August 1975 · New Castle, Indiana, United States · Fatal

Summary

On 2 August 1975 at about 14:40 local time, a Pitts S-1S registered N3R, operated by Allied Fidelit, was involved in an accident during in flight near New Castle, Indiana, United States. One person was on board and one died. The aircraft was destroyed. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 2 August 1975 at 14:40
Classification: Accident
Location: New Castle, Indiana, United States
Nearest airport: Sky Castle
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Pitts S-1S
Registration: N3R
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 1
Operator: Allied Fidelit
Operating rule: Corporate/Executive
Purpose of flight: Practice
Phase of flight: In Flight
Route: S → Local
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 3-2096

People

1 person died.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
1	1	0	0	0

Probable cause

The NTSB has not published a probable cause for this record. No probable cause statement is present in the source data.

Nothing about the cause is stated here that is not in the source record.

Read the full NTSB narrative

AFTR TKOF ACFT REMAINED LOW OVR RWY TO END, THEN VERT CLMB TO L HAMMERHEAD.ELEV TRIM FULL NOSE UP.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.

No coordinates. The source record does not contain a latitude and longitude, so this accident cannot be shown on the map. Everything else about it is on this page.

Source

NTSB record 3-2096, from the public aviation accident database.

Records from before 1982 are not in the NTSB's online investigation search. The full dataset can be downloaded from data.ntsb.gov/avdata.

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