Cessna 305A
N140R is a Cessna 305A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1951. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Washington, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 15, 2024 and expires on June 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated February 14, 1972.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 305A · all 305As and related versions
- Serial number
- 22834
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1951
- Cruising speed
- 99 mph
- Transponder code
- A0A427 (octal 50122047)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 15, 2024
- Expires
- June 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- June 15, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Utility · February 14, 1972
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00471522
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Plaster William L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 146 Riverboat Dr
Washington, NC 27889-9717
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N140R, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Plaster William L, an individual, certificate issued June 15, 2024, expires June 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 14, 1972, 21 years after the 1951 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 22834 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N140R according to the deregistered file. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
1 NTSB record under N140R: Accident on September 18, 2021 at Topeka, KS: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 305A · operated under 091
The loss of control and ground loop due to the mechanical malfunction of the tailwheel lock.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN21LA448 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data