NTSB CAROL · Event
Event UNK64X2633
Registry · N50839
FAA Aircraft Registry record.
Make / Model
TAYLORCRAFT DCO-65
Year of manufacture
1945 · 19 years old at event
Engine
CONT MOTOR A&C65 SERIES (65 hp)
Seats / Engines
2 seats · 1 engine
Last airworthiness date
19570502
ADS-B equipped
Yes — Mode-S A65A8B
Registrant of record
REID ROBERT W DBA
Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).
Aircraft involved
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
TAYLORCRAFT L2 · N50839
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dusk
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
A0
Operator type
Personal/private
Airport
REIDS HILLVIEW
Kind of flying
DZ
Weather at impact
Sky
UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED
Aircraft history
Total time
1,410 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
Airline transport
Age
31
Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)
P SUBSTANTIAL DAMAGE PARKED TAYLORCRAFT L2-N66713
Investigator remarks
PARKED AIRCRAFT TAYLORCRAFT L2 N66713 SUB.DAMAGE
Cause factors
- 84/A/8 A MISCELLANEOUS UNQUALIFIED PERSON OPERATED AIRCRAFT 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 1922.
Source file
NTSB_1964_3_1922.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
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- arXiv 2021 · arXiv preprint
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- arXiv 2020 · arXiv preprint
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- NASA NTRS 2019 · Presentation
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- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2016 · Conference paper
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