Diamond Aircraft DA 42
N132TS is a Diamond Aircraft DA 42, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 2006. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Utah State University, a government body in Logan, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 16, 2016 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 4, 2006.
Diamond Aircraft: eDA40 electric trainer, Austria
Where is it now Last seen Tuesday at 6:33 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Diamond Aircraft (Austria)FAA spelling: DIAMOND AIRCRAFT IND INC
- Model
- DA 42 · all DA 42s and related versions
- Built of
- compositeThe airframe is composite: carbon fibre or glass fibre set in resin, moulded in large pieces with few joints, which gives smooth shapes but needs different inspection and repair methods from metal. This is how the Diamond Aircraft DA 42 Twin Star 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
- 42.AC018
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (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, 2 motors · Thielert TAE-125-01 · 132 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2006
- Transponder code
- A08459 (octal 50102131)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 16, 2016
- Expires
- June 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 11, 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 · December 4, 2006
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00304259
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Utah State University (university or college with a flight programme: its whole fleet and safety record)
- Type
- GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 2500 N 900 W
Logan, UT 84321-1709
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N132TS links to the rest of the register
- Diamond Aircraft DA 42 Twin Star 266 registered
- Diamond Aircraft 1,876 aircraft on the register
- Built of composite · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Thielert TAE-125-01 35 aircraft with this engine series · 132 hp
- Utah State University 57 aircraft in the fleet
- Logan, UT 129 aircraft registered in this town
- Logan-Cache Airport · LGU
- Utah 8,362 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Diamond Aircraft DA 42 Twin Star 27 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Diamond Aircraft DA 42 Twin Star 313 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Diamond Aircraft DA 42 Twin Star 39 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Thielert TAE-125-01 9 airworthiness directives
- Report filed on this aircraft: Exhaust Pipe, inflt separation · 2025-07-09
- Report filed on this aircraft: Exhaust Pipe, inflt separation · 2025-07-09
- Report filed on this aircraft: Exhaust Pipe, inflt separation · 2025-07-09
- Where N132TS is now · Last seen Tuesday at 6:33 pm.
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The public federal record on N132TS, 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 Utah State University, a government body, certificate issued June 16, 2016, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 4, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 42.AC018 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N132TS 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N132TS. 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 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 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 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data