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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 3, 2026Cessna 305A
N305BD is a Cessna 305A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1950. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Qualitair LLC Trustee, an LLC in Michelstadt. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 26, 2023 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 14, 1979.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 305A · all 305As and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. The Bird Dog, the Army's version of the 170. This is how the Cessna 305 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 22761
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1950
- Cruising speed
- 99 mph
- Transponder code
- A33202 (octal 50631002)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 26, 2023
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- January 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 14, 1979
- FAA region
- EuropeanFAA region code 8 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00381183
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Qualitair LLC Trustee
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- Flugplatz Michelstadt
Mossauer Strasse 17
Michelstadt, 64720
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.
Connections how N305BD links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 305 202 registered
- Cessna 72,685 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Qualitair LLC Trustee 254 aircraft in the fleet
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 305 41 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N305BD.json.
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The public federal record on N305BD, 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 Qualitair LLC Trustee, an LLC, certificate issued January 26, 2023, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 14, 1979, 29 years after the 1950 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 22761 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N305BD 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 N305BD: Accident on January 14, 2004 at Casa Grande, AZ: 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 failure of a tail wheel steering component (spring), which resulted in a loss of directional control and a ground loop during the landing roll. A contributing factor was the soft terrain adjacent to the runway.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 3, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data