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Diamond Aircraft DA20-C1
N293DC is a Diamond Aircraft DA20-C1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2002. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Alpine Aviation INC, a corporation in Grass Valley, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 21, 2004 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated July 19, 2002.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Alpine Aviation, Inc., so it can be flown for hire.
Diamond Aircraft: eDA40 electric trainer, Austria
Where is it now Last seen Thursday at 1:51 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
- C0193
- 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 SER · 128 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2002
- Transponder code
- A300ED (octal 50600355)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 21, 2004
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 28, 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 · July 19, 2002
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00324187
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Alpine Aviation 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
- 13310 Nevada City Ave
Grass Valley, CA 95945-9091
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N293DC links to the rest of the register
- Diamond Aircraft DA20 Katana and Eclipse 364 registered
- Diamond Aircraft 1,875 aircraft on the register
- Built of composite · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Alpine Aviation, Inc. · charter operator
- Continental IO-240 series 111 aircraft with this engine series · 128 hp
- Alpine Aviation INC 77 aircraft in the fleet
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · valid to August 9, 2027
- Grass Valley, CA 107 aircraft registered in this town
- Nevada County · GOO
- California 27,686 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
- Report filed on this aircraft: Coil, failed · 2020-12-15
- Report filed on this aircraft: Magneto, failed · 2008-12-09
- Report filed on this aircraft: Gear, making metal · 2007-12-19
- Where N293DC is now · Last seen Thursday at 1:51 pm.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N293DC.json.
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The public federal record on N293DC, 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 Alpine Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 21, 2004, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility, dated July 19, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial C0193 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N293DC 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 N293DC. 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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data