Cessna 305A
N5188G is a Cessna 305A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1951. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Plane And Simple Leasing LLC, an LLC in Delano, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 24, 2025 and expires on March 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 22, 1972.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 305A · all 305As and related versions
- Serial number
- 22196
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1951
- Cruising speed
- 99 mph
- Transponder code
- A6829E (octal 51501236)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 24, 2025
- Expires
- March 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 22, 1972
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00932225
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Plane And Simple Leasing LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 3995 Eckert Ave SE
Delano, MN 55328-5233
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 N5188G, 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 Plane And Simple Leasing LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 24, 2025, expires March 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 22, 1972, 21 years after the 1951 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 22196 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5188G 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]
2 NTSB records under N5188G: Accident on March 23, 2001 at Winslow, AZ: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on March 13, 1999 at Coalinga, 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 305A · operated under 091
The student's inadvertent restriction of the rudder pedal's movement during landing rollout precipitated the loss of directional control and ground loop. A finding was that remedial action by the CFI was not possible due to the student’s control interference.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX01LA128 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 305A · operated under 091
The pilot's inadequate compensation for the crosswind condition and failure to maintain directional control of the airplane.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX99LA118 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