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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC66F0315

1965-11-21 HOPKINS, Minnesota, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1108Q

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

DEHAVILLAND DHC-2

Year of manufacture

1952 · 13 years old at event

Engine

P&W R-985 SERIES (450 hp)

Seats / Engines

8 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19850710

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A02FB2

Registrant of record

LAKE CLARK HOLDINGS LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1108Q Cessna 310H 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 310H · N1108Q

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

FLYING CLOUD

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

1,963 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

12,082

Age

36

Investigator remarks

NIGHT OPERATION

Cause factors

64/A/13 A
PILOT IN COMMAND INADVERTENTLY RETRACTED GEAR 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 3757. Source file NTSB_1965_3_3757.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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