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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI80FET25

1980-08-15 HOBART, Indiana, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8654A

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH A35

Year of manufacture

1949 · 31 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR E185 SERIES (205 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560518

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ABE44F

Registrant of record

PICTURESQUE AVIATION LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8654A Beech A-35 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

BEECH A-35 · N8654A

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

HOBART SKY RANCH

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

360° / 8 kt

Temp

68° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000D-2064

Total time

2,940 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

632

Age

45

Cause factors

64/A/23 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF FLIGHT CONTROLS 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 1874. Source file NTSB_1980_3_1874.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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