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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI81FEX21

1981-06-26 PAOLI, Indiana, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N27671

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

TAYLORCRAFT BC-65

Engine

LYCOMING 0-145B SERIES (65 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19470710

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A2C02D

Registrant of record

CLEARWATER AIR & AUTO MUSEUM

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N27671 Taylorcraft BC-65 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

TAYLORCRAFT BC-65 · N27671

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D0

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

330° / 11 kt

Temp

78° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000002313

Total time

4,476 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

329

Age

43

Investigator remarks

SOLID PARTICLES IN CARB JETS.

Cause factors

68/C/D8 C
PERSONNEL OTHER Cause
88/C/64 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL CONTAMINATION-EXCLUSIVE OF WATER IN FUEL 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 1325. Source file NTSB_1981_3_1325.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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