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A Diamond Aircraft DA 50, the same model family as N281PA
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026
N281PA

Diamond Aircraft DA 50 C

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesElectric airplaneFlorida

N281PA is a Diamond Aircraft DA 50 C, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2023. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Premier Aircraft Sales INC, a corporation in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 20, 2025 and expires on January 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 30, 2025.

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Aircraft

Maker
Diamond Aircraft (Austria)
FAA spelling: DIAMOND AIRCRAFT IND GMBH
Model
DA 50 C · all DA 50 Cs and related versions
Built of
composite
The 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 50 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
50.C.A.A.048
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
TurbopropFAA type of engine code 2 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor CENTURION 3.0 · 300 hp
Seats
5
Year built
2023
Transponder code
A2D2F8 (octal 50551370)

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 20, 2025
Expires
January 31, 2032
Last FAA action
January 20, 2025
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 · January 30, 2025
FAA region
SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01485980

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Premier Aircraft Sales INC
Type
CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
5544 NW 23Rd Ave
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309-2709

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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

2018-03-13Piper PA-28-181 · Registration expired, pending cancellation

Connections how N281PA links to the rest of the register

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The public federal record on N281PA, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Premier Aircraft Sales INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 20, 2025, expires January 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated January 30, 2025, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 50.C.A.A.048 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N281PA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-181 (serial 2843458, cancelled March 13, 2018). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N281PA. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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