Cessna 305A
N5269G 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 Hill City, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 18, 2023 and expires on October 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated March 14, 1972.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 305A · all 305As and related versions
- Serial number
- 21471
- 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
- A6A2D2 (octal 51521322)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 18, 2023
- Expires
- October 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Utility · March 14, 1972
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00792545
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Brachtenbach Eric
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2125 US Highway 283
Hill City, KS 67642-2844
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 N5269G, 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 Brachtenbach Eric, an individual, certificate issued October 18, 2023, expires October 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 14, 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 21471 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5269G 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 N5269G: Accident on September 14, 2023 at Cortland, NY: 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 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control while landing in a gusting crosswind, which resulted in a noseover. Contributing was the pilot’s lack of familiarity with the airplane.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA23LA374 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