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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX81FUQ18

1981-04-26 SANTA BARBARA, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1054D

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 195A

Year of manufacture

1951 · 30 years old at event

Engine

JACOBS L4 /R755-7 (245 hp)

Seats / Engines

5 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560413

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A01A2F

Registrant of record

BROWN DOUGLAS R

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1054D Cessna 195A 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

CESSNA 195A · N1054D

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

SANTA BARBARA

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

330° / 10 kt

Temp

63° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000007666

Total time

3,777 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

4,500

Age

35

Cause factors

64/A/22 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS 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 1370. Source file NTSB_1981_3_1370.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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