Cessna Ector 305A
N828 is a Cessna Ector 305A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1962. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Gold Hill, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 25, 2023 and expires on October 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated March 6, 1963.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna Ector
- 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. This is how the Cessna Ector 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
- 2002
- 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 · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1962
- Cruising speed
- 99 mph
- Transponder code
- AB4E92 (octal 52647222)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 25, 2023
- Expires
- October 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 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 · UtilityFAA certificate purpose code U (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 6, 1963
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00903511
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mcgowan Walter A
- 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 786
Gold Hill, OR 97525-0786
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
Connections how N828 links to the rest of the register
- Cessna Ector 305 20 registered
- Cessna Ector 20 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental O-470 series 12,780 aircraft with this engine series · 230 hp
- Gold Hill, OR 13 aircraft registered in this town
- Oregon 7,013 aircraft registered
- Approved modifications for the Cessna Ector 305 48 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental O-470 series 23 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental O-470 series 148 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Light, inoperative · 2009-02-27
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The public federal record on N828, 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 Mcgowan Walter A, an individual, certificate issued October 25, 2023, expires October 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility, dated March 6, 1963, consistent with the 1962 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2002 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N828 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Sikorsky S-58 (serial 581123, cancelled August 10, 1960); Aircraft Mechanics Inc COMB EAGLEROCK 3POLB (serial 217, cancelled March 31, 1948). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N828. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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