Cessna 305A
N473GF is a Cessna 305A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1967. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Honolulu Soaring Club INC, a corporation in Waialua, Hawaii. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 13, 1976 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 13, 1967.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 305A · all 305As and related versions
- Serial number
- 2018
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1967
- Cruising speed
- 99 mph
- Transponder code
- A5CCDB (octal 51346333)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 13, 1976
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 13, 1967
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00893484
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Honolulu Soaring Club INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 626
Waialua, HI 96791-0626
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 N473GF, 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 Honolulu Soaring Club INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 13, 1976, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 13, 1967, consistent with the 1967 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2018 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N473GF 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 N473GF: Accident on February 14, 2008 at Mokuleia, HI: 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 305-A · operated under 091
The failure of the left main landing gear strut due to fatigue. Contributing to the failure was the side load placed on the landing gear while making a crosswind landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX08LA060 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