Cessna 305A
N5291G is a Cessna 305A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1953. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Simmons Aviation Services LLC, an LLC in Pawcatuck, Connecticut. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 7, 2011 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for aerial advertising, dated June 13, 2011.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 305A · all 305As and related versions
- Serial number
- 23413
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1953
- Cruising speed
- 99 mph
- Transponder code
- A6ACDF (octal 51526337)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 7, 2011
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Aerial advertising · June 13, 2011
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00082635
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Simmons Aviation Services LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 353 Greenhaven Rd
Pawcatuck, CT 06379-2093
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 N5291G, 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 Simmons Aviation Services LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 7, 2011, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 13, 2011, 58 years after the 1953 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 23413 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5291G 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]
4 NTSB records under N5291G: Accident on July 4, 2016 at Narragansett, RI: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on March 14, 1985 at Sugar Loaf Key, FL: minor injuries, substantial damage. Accident on August 24, 1984 at East Moriches, 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 4
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 305 · operated under 091
A total loss of engine power for reasons that could not be determined during a postaccident examination of the airframe and engine.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA16LA244 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 305A · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA85LA119 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 305A · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC84FHJ02 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 305A · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC82DA165 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data