Cessna 305A
N5208G 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 an individual in West Des Moines, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 8, 2005 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated May 16, 1972.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 305A · all 305As and related versions
- Serial number
- 21936
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1951
- Cruising speed
- 99 mph
- Transponder code
- A68C65 (octal 51506145)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 8, 2005
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Utility · May 16, 1972
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00982325
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Snider Gary L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1400 S 52Nd St Unit 1
West Des Moines, IA 50265-5272
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 N5208G, 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 Snider Gary L, an individual, certificate issued July 8, 2005, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 16, 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 21936 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5208G 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 N5208G: Accident on September 3, 2004 at Lawrence, MA: minor injuries, substantial damage. Accident on July 7, 1990 at Newburyport, MA: 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 pilot's inadvertent pickup of a banner towline with the airplanes main landing gear after encountering gusting wind conditions. A factor related to the accident was the gusting wind conditions.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 305A · operated under 091
FAILURE OF THE PILOT IN COMMAND TO FOLLOW PROCEDURES FOR LANDING WITH A BANNER STILL ATTACHED, CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT WAS THE IMPROPER MODIFICATION OF BANNER RELEASE MECHANISM.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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