Cessna 305A
N5255G 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 co-owned owners in Ennis, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 15, 2010 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated February 23, 1972.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 305A · all 305As and related versions
- Serial number
- 22655
- 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
- A69E8F (octal 51517217)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 15, 2010
- Expires
- June 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Utility · February 23, 1972
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00072515
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Setian Peter
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 1209 Williamsburg Dr
Ennis, TX 75119-2118 - Co-owners
- Walker Carol L
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 N5255G, 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 Setian Peter, a co-owned, certificate issued April 15, 2010, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 23, 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 22655 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5255G 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 N5255G: Accident on August 29, 2015 at Midlothian, TX: 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
The failure of the brake line tubing for the right main landing gear brake, due to a non-standard method used to secure the brake line, which resulted in a loss of control during landing, and a ground loop.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA15CA242 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