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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA66F0009

1965-05-31 COLVILLE, Washington, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N3299U

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 182F

Year of manufacture

1963 · 2 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19630308

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A39365

Registrant of record

RICHARDSON RONNIE L JR

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N3299U Cessna 182F 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 182F · N3299U

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

COLVILLE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Total time

720 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

89

Age

40

Cause factors

64/A/25 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF 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 1355. Source file NTSB_1965_3_1355.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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