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Diamond Aircraft DA20-C1
N278DC is a Diamond Aircraft DA20-C1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2006. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Sweet Aviation LLC, an LLC in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 14, 2021 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated June 30, 2006.
Diamond Aircraft: eDA40 electric trainer, Austria
Where is it now Last seen Sunday at 4:22 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Diamond Aircraft (Austria)FAA spelling: DIAMOND AIRCRAFT IND INC
- Model
- DA20-C1 · all DA20-C1s 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 DA20 Katana and Eclipse 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
- C0378
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (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, 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-240-B · 125 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2006
- Transponder code
- A2C482 (octal 50542202)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 14, 2021
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 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 · UtilityFAA certificate purpose code U (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 30, 2006
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00263989
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sweet Aviation LLC (flight school: its whole fleet and safety record)
- 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
- 902 W Ludwig Rd Ste 118
Fort Wayne, IN 46825-4000
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N278DC links to the rest of the register
- Diamond Aircraft DA20 Katana and Eclipse 364 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
- Continental IO-240-B 212 aircraft with this engine series · 125 hp
- Sweet Aviation LLC 14 aircraft in the fleet
- Fort Wayne, IN 195 aircraft registered in this town
- Fort Wayne International · FWA
- Smith Field · SMD
- Indiana 5,698 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Diamond Aircraft DA20 Katana and Eclipse 15 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Diamond Aircraft DA20 Katana and Eclipse 657 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Diamond Aircraft DA20 Katana and Eclipse 105 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental IO-240-B 3 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental IO-240-B 346 reports since 1995
- Where N278DC is now · Last seen Sunday at 4:22 pm.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N278DC.json.
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The public federal record on N278DC, 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 Sweet Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 14, 2021, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility, dated June 30, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial C0378 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N278DC 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 N278DC. 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