Cessna 305B
N8WP is a Cessna 305B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1956. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Yellow Peril Aero LLC, an LLC in Richmond, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 29, 2022 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated December 27, 1972.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 305B · all 305Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 23521
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1956
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- AADF2D (octal 52557455)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 29, 2022
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Utility · December 27, 1972
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00306878
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Yellow Peril Aero LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 7 W Kitty Hawk St
Richmond, TX 77406-9710
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 N8WP, 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 Yellow Peril Aero LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 29, 2022, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 27, 1972, 16 years after the 1956 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 23521 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8WP 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 N8WP: Accident on August 15, 1998 at Lantana, FL: minor 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 inadequate preflight inspection of the fuel system that resulted in the loss of engine power due to water contamination. A factor was the rough terrain on the departure end of the runway.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL98LA113 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