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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI66F0471

1965-06-24 DELAVAN, Wisconsin, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5493D

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH H35

Year of manufacture

1957 · 8 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19570314

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A6FC20

Registrant of record

ACRES AVIATION LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5493D BEECHCRAFT H35 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

BEECHCRAFT H35 · N5493D

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

LAKELAWN

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

80° F

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

267

Age

40

Cause factors

64/C/25 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 3675. Source file NTSB_1965_3_3675.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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