Cessna 305A
N342FS is a Cessna 305A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Petersen Aircraft INC, a corporation in Murdock, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 11, 2015 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated August 23, 1972.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 305A · all 305As and related versions
- Serial number
- 21831
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 99 mph
- Transponder code
- A3C54A (octal 50742512)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 11, 2015
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- September 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Utility · August 23, 1972
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00042285
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Petersen Aircraft INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 8090 Highway 40 NE
Murdock, MN 56271-8014
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 N342FS, 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 Petersen Aircraft INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 11, 2015, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 21831 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N342FS 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 N342FS: Accident on February 2, 2013 at Camarillo, CA: 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
A tailwheel vibration upon touchdown and the subsequent loss of directional control for reasons that could not be determined because postaccident examination revealed no mechanical malfunctions or failures that would have precluded normal operation.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR13LA112 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data