Diamond Aircraft DA 40
N420DS is a Diamond Aircraft DA 40, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2011. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Papa Sierra LLC, an LLC in Huntsville, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 21, 2020 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated September 28, 2011.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Diamond Aircraft (Austria)FAA spelling: DIAMOND AIRCRAFT IND INC
- Model
- DA 40 · all DA 40s and related versions
- Serial number
- 40.1120
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-M1A+ · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2011
- Transponder code
- A4FBFB (octal 51175773)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 21, 2020
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · September 28, 2011
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01079881
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Papa Sierra LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 103 Shoreline Dr
Huntsville, AL 35758
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N420DS, 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 Papa Sierra LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 21, 2020, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated September 28, 2011, consistent with the 2011 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 40.1120 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N420DS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Boeing 747-341 (serial 24108, cancelled February 1, 2000). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N420DS. 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 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