NYC83FNA01 · Cessna 150L
Cessna 150L · Accident: loss of control in flight during initial climb
From Marstons Mills, MA to Hyannis, MA
Event
- NTSB case
- NYC83FNA01
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Completed
- API-reported fatalities
- 1 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Cessna 150L
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 150
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N1433Q
- Operator
- Ronald C. Armeson · private individual
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Marstons Mills, MATo Hyannis, MA
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Initial climb
- First occurrenceThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Loss of control in flight
- Also codedOther events the NTSB coded in the sequence, such as a wire strike after a loss of power. Flight Findings uses them for its kinds of event. Glossary
- Stall/spin
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Cause areas
- Pilot in command › Airspeed, not maintained
- Pilot in command › Flight controls, improper use of
- Pilot in command › Stall/spin, inadvertent
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Marstons Mills, MA, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
THE ACFT WAS OBSERVED TO CLIMB AT A STEEP ANGLE TO 150-200 FT & THEN ENTER A SPIN. THE OWNER/PLT HAD JUST FINISHED INSTALLING STALL FENCES AS PART OF A STOL KIT THAT HE WAS IN THE PROCESS OF COMPLETING. EXAMINATION OF THE ACFT SHOWED A PARTIAL INSTALLATION OF THE STOL KIT WHICH INCLUDES LEADING EDGE CUFFS, STALL FENCES, AILERON SEALS & WING TIPS. ACCORDING TO THE FBO THE CUFFS WERE INSTALLED ON THE DAY OF THE ACCIDENT. THE STALL WARINING TRANSMITTER & AIR VENTS HADNOT BEEN INSTALLED. APPROXIMATELY 80 POUNDS OF TOOLS, CLOTHING, BED & CAMPING EQUIPMENT WERE FOUND IN THE BAGGAGE AREA. DURING ENG TEAR-DOWN THE DRAIN OIL WAS FOUND DIRTY & FELT GRITTY. THE OIL SCREEN & HOUSING CONTAINED METAL FLAKES, CARBON & SAND PARTICLES, & LINT. THE CAMSHAFT & CRANKSHAFT JOURNALS SHOWED EVIDENCE OF SCRATCHES & SCORE MARKS. THE #4 PISTON HAD A BROKEN OIL RING, APPROXIMATELY 1/5 OF IT WAS MISSING.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record NYC83FNA01
- Event ID
- 20020917X05070
- Case number
- NYC83FNA01
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: e669a8e9bb17f257c364cad73334827c98ed13576c0180c9bdd20aab73b3faae; retrieved 2026-09-21T07:26:07.836Z.