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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 29, 2026Cessna 305A
N72BD is a Cessna 305A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Powell, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 25, 2023 and expires on August 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 23, 1972.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 305A · all 305As and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. The Bird Dog, the Army's version of the 170. This is how the Cessna 305 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 21655
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 99 mph
- Transponder code
- A9A150 (octal 52320520)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 25, 2023
- Expires
- August 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- August 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 23, 1972
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00473552
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Heidorf Thomas H
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 75
Powell, TX 75153-0075
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N72BD links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 305 202 registered
- Cessna 72,683 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Powell, TX 2 aircraft registered in this town
- Texas 29,943 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 305 41 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Angle, cracked · 2009-04-23
- Report filed on this aircraft: Windshield, cracked · 2008-09-05
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N72BD.json.
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The public federal record on N72BD, 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 Heidorf Thomas H, an individual, certificate issued August 25, 2023, expires August 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 21655 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N72BD was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mcdowell BD-7 (serial 2, cancelled October 19, 1981). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N72BD: Accident on July 29, 2017 at Eagle Lake, 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 305 · operated under 091
The pilot’s loss of directional control during landing in variable wind conditions.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 29, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data