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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC66F0038

1965-07-25 MCGRATH, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7545K

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-18-105 SPECIAL

Year of manufacture

1950 · 15 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-290 SERIES (140 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560913

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AA2BF6

Registrant of record

SNEAD DOUG

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N7545K Piper PA-18 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

PIPER PA-18 · N7545K

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

MCGRATH

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

330° / 10 kt

Temp

60° F

Aircraft history

Total time

471 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

86

Age

52

Cause factors

64/A/24 A
PILOT IN COMMAND PREMATURE LIFT-OFF Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/1/67 1
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ALCOHOLIC IMPAIRMENT OF EFFICIENCY AND JUDGMENT Subordinate · 1

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 2760. Source file NTSB_1965_3_2760.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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