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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN80FTE65

1980-07-22 AURORA, Colorado, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2515A

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-18

Year of manufacture

1952 · 28 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-290 SERIES (140 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19760202

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A25E3D

Registrant of record

CLAUS JAY G

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N2515A Piper PA-18 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-18 · N2515A

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

DIRT STRIP

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000181972

Total time

2,900 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

830

Age

50

Cause factors

64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
64/B/07 B
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND
88/K/DH K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS RAN OFF END OF RUNWAY 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 2527. Source file NTSB_1980_3_2527.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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