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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN65F0070

1965-05-16 RAWLINS, Wyoming, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N80883

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

GLOBE GC-1B

Year of manufacture

1946 · 19 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR C145 SERIES (145 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19551209

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AB0321

Registrant of record

GANN EDWARD L

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N80883 SWIFT GC-1B 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

SWIFT GC-1B · N80883

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

RAWLINS

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

220° / 30 kt

Temp

67° F

Aircraft history

Total time

893 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

550

Age

52

Investigator remarks

WIND GUSTING TO 30 KNOTS

Cause factors

64/C/28 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS Cause
82/L/H L
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS

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 0846. Source file NTSB_1965_3_0846.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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