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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI68F0648

1968-02-16 CLEVELAND, Ohio, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N86D

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PERRY RICHARD L GLASAIR SH-2R

Year of manufacture

1987

Engine

LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19871118

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ABCCC9

Registrant of record

PERRY RICHARD KEVIN

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N86D AERO COMDR 680V 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

AERO COMDR 680V · N86D

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

E

Airport

BURKE LAKEFRONT

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

210° / 12 kt

Temp

17° F

Aircraft history

Total time

346 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

4,665

Age

40

Cause factors

64/A/13 A
PILOT IN COMMAND INADVERTENTLY RETRACTED GEAR Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 0548. Source file NTSB_1968_3_0548.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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