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N5074Z

Cessna 305A

Valid Illinois

N5074Z is a Cessna 305A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Danville, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 16, 2026 and expires on August 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated June 15, 1982.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
305A · all 305As and related versions
Serial number
21637
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
99 mph
Transponder code
A656ED (octal 51453355)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 16, 2026
Expires
August 31, 2033
Last FAA action
August 16, 2026
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · June 15, 1982
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00611187

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Vadeboncoeur Michael D
Type
Individual
Address
122 Thornhill Dr
Danville, IL 61832-1125

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.

Earlier use of this number 1

1970-06-26Piper PA-22-108 · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N5074Z, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Vadeboncoeur Michael D, an individual, certificate issued August 16, 2026, expires August 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 21637 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N5074Z was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-22-108 (serial 22-8705, cancelled June 26, 1970). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N5074Z: Accident on July 23, 1991 at Keokuk, IA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

CHI91LA225Accident on July 23, 1991 at Keokuk, IA: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 305A · operated under 091

DIVERTED ATTENTION BY THE PILOT RESULTING IN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL NOT BEING MAINTAINED. A FACTOR RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WAS CROSSWIND.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI91LA225 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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