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Event SEA81DYM04

1980-10-05 HILLSBORO, Oregon, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N82481

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-18-150

Year of manufacture

1978 · 2 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19930727

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AB4341

Registrant of record

BICKMAN JIM W

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N82481 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 · N82481

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

PORTLAND-HILLSBOR

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0018-7809145

Total time

458 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

102

Age

26

Investigator remarks

FIRST SOLO IN TYPE ACFT.

Cause factors

64/C/25 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause
64/B/62 B
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER RECOVERY FROM BOUNCED LANDING
64/L/31 L
PILOT IN COMMAND LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH AIRCRAFT

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 2618. Source file NTSB_1980_3_2618.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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