Cessna 305A (O-1A)
N87971 is a Cessna 305A (O-1A), a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Bonners Ferry, Idaho. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 1, 2025 and expires on March 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated March 20, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 305A (O-1A) · all 305A (O-1A)s and related versions
- Serial number
- 21947
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- AC1B2C (octal 53015454)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 1, 2025
- Expires
- March 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- March 18, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · March 20, 1978
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00272041
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Johnson Shem E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 1952
Bonners Ferry, ID 83805-1952
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
Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N87971, 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 Johnson Shem E, an individual, certificate issued March 1, 2025, expires March 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 21947 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N87971 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper J3C-65 (serial 15589, cancelled May 13, 1965). 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 N87971. 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 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