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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI81FEP41

1981-08-06 MEQUON, Wisconsin, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1114V

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

DEHAVILLAND DHC-1

Year of manufacture

1950 · 31 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING GO-435 (210 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19800312

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A032E2

Registrant of record

EAA AVIATION FOUNDATION INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1114V DEHAVILLAND DHC-1 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

DEHAVILLAND DHC-1 · N1114V

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

250° / 10 kt

Temp

78° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000154

Total time

4,788 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

11,550

Age

49

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

& MOVE MIXTURE TO LEAN.

Investigator remarks

ALLOWED BRIEF CASE TO SLIDE FWD,HIT MIXTURE CTL

Cause factors

64/C/21 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS Cause
83/K/D K
TERRAIN HIGH VEGETATION 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 1682. Source file NTSB_1981_3_1682.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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