North American/Benner R A Jr SNJ-5
N30306 is a North American/Benner R A Jr SNJ-5, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1944. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Buelen Brian V, a partnership in Mesa, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 16, 2020 and expires on April 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 22, 1996.
Aircraft
- Maker
- North American/Benner R A Jr
- Model
- SNJ-5
- Serial number
- 90655-RAB
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P&W R1340 SERIES · 600 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1944
- Transponder code
- A32CEE (octal 50626356)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 16, 2020
- Expires
- April 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 22, 1996
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00575222
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Buelen Brian V
- Type
- Partnership
- Address
- 5225 E Elmwood Cir
Mesa, AZ 85205-5425 - Co-owners
- Beulen Helen M Wyrick
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N30306, 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 Buelen Brian V, a partnership, certificate issued April 16, 2020, expires April 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 22, 1996, 52 years after the 1944 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 90655-RAB for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N30306 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 177A (serial 17701183, cancelled February 19, 1992); Piper J3F-60 (serial 4781, cancelled May 21, 1965). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N30306: Accident on August 29, 1990 at Gainesville, FL: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). 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 177-A · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO REFUEL PRIOR TO FLIGHT.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA90FA177 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