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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN68F0202

1968-02-02 HOBBS, New Mexico, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1111P

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

GULFSTREAM AEROSPACE G-V

Year of manufacture

1997

Engine

BMW ROLLS BR 700 SERIES

Seats / Engines

20 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19980116

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A03273

Registrant of record

TROUSDALE AVIATION LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1111P Piper PA-23 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

PIPER PA-23 · N1111P

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

D

Airport

HOBBS LEA COUNTY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

190° / 17 kt

Temp

57° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,654 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

2,500

Age

58

Cause factors

64/A/12 A
PILOT IN COMMAND RETRACTED GEAR PREMATURELY 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 0253. Source file NTSB_1968_3_0253.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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