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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI65F0140

1965-04-07 ADRIAN, Michigan, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4301H

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-15

Year of manufacture

1948 · 17 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR C85 SERIES (85 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19570723

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A525A1

Registrant of record

DRANE STEPHEN T

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N4301H Piper PA-15 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-15 · N4301H

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B1

Operator type

D

Airport

ADRIAN

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

270° / 20 kt

Temp

65° F

Aircraft history

Total time

790 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

600

Age

30

Investigator remarks

WIND GUSTING TO 30 KNOTS

Cause factors

64/A/28 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
82/J/H J
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS Joint 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 0833. Source file NTSB_1965_3_0833.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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