Diamond Aircraft DA 42
N16FA is a Diamond Aircraft DA 42, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 2007. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Av8 Flight Assets LLC, an LLC in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 2, 2023 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 16, 2007.
Diamond Aircraft: eDA40 electric trainer, Austria
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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.AC029
- 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
- 2007
- Transponder code
- A0EFD3 (octal 50167723)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 2, 2023
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- February 4, 2026
- 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 16, 2007
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00325239
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Av8 Flight Assets LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 13601 Pioneer Trl
Eden Prairie, MN 55347-2613
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N16FA 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
- Av8 Flight Assets LLC 11 aircraft in the fleet
- Eden Prairie, MN 149 aircraft registered in this town
- Minnesota 6,933 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
- Where N16FA is now · Last seen Saturday at 10:59 am.
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The public federal record on N16FA, 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 Av8 Flight Assets LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 2, 2023, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated February 16, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 42.AC029 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N16FA 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 N16FA. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data