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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event UNK64X3020

1964-07-25 WEIRTON, West Virginia, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N36218

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

TAYLORCRAFT BL-65

Year of manufacture

1941 · 23 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-145B SERIES (65 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560702

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A41656

Registrant of record

HVIZDAK GEORGE D

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N36218 Taylorcraft BL65 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

TAYLORCRAFT BL65 · N36218

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

D

Airport

WEIRTON

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

1,750

Age

55

Cause factors

66/C/22 C
DUAL STUDENT Cause
66/C/43 C
DUAL STUDENT Cause

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 2216. Source file NTSB_1964_3_2216.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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