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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI66F0118

1965-07-21 CHAMPAIGN, Illinois, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N46924

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

AERONCA 0-58B

Year of manufacture

1945 · 20 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR A&C65 SERIES (65 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A5BDC5

Registrant of record

DWELLE KENNETH H

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N46924 Aeronca 058B 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

AERONCA 058B · N46924

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

135° / 5 kt

Temp

75° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,583 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

80

Age

29

Investigator remarks

OFF AIRPORT OPERATION

Cause factors

64/C/48 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE Cause
64/C/02 C
PILOT IN COMMAND ATTEMPTED OPERATION BEYOND EXPERIENCE/ABILITY LEVEL 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 2008. Source file NTSB_1965_3_2008.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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