Diamond Aircraft DA 42 NG
N257LA is a Diamond Aircraft DA 42 NG, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 2023. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Nashville, Tennessee. The FAA lists the registration as "registration pending". It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 12, 2023.
Diamond Aircraft: eDA40 electric trainer, Austria
Aircraft
- Maker
- Diamond Aircraft (Austria)FAA spelling: DIAMOND AIRCRAFT IND GMBH
- Model
- DA 42 NG · all DA 42 NGs and related versions
- Serial number
- 42.N507
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Austro E4 SERIES · 168 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2023
- Transponder code
- A2727A (octal 50471172)
Registration
- Status
- Registration pending
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 12, 2023
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 01405744
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Registration Pending
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1629 7Th Ave N
Nashville, TN 37208-2219
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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 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N257LA, 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.
Registration status is "Registration pending". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated June 12, 2023, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 42.N507 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N257LA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Air Tractor Inc AT-502B (serial 502B-0257, cancelled February 13, 2013). 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]
1 NTSB record under N257LA: Accident on June 2, 2001 at Anguilla, MS: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). 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: Air Tractor 502B · operated under 137
Failure of both pilots to maintain visual lookout, resulting in an in-flight collision. The air tractor pilot operated the positioning flight at an altitude below 500 feet agl. Valium was detected in the toxicological examination of the Air Tractor pilot.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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