Diamond Aircraft DA 42 NG
N421MQ is a Diamond Aircraft DA 42 NG, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 2021. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Take Flight Aviation LLC, an LLC in Montgomery, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 10, 2026 and expires on March 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 22, 2021.
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.N439
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Austro E4 SERIES · 168 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2021
- Transponder code
- A50078 (octal 51200170)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 10, 2026
- Expires
- March 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 22, 2021
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01355002
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Take Flight Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 49 Hangar Rd
Montgomery, NY 12549-2404
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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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N421MQ, 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 Take Flight Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 10, 2026, expires March 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 22, 2021, consistent with the 2021 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 42.N439 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N421MQ was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aerospatiale/Aeritalia ATR 42-300 (serial 014, cancelled June 11, 1998). 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]
2 NTSB records under N421MQ: Incident on April 3, 1996 at Traverse City, MI: no injuries, minor damage. Incident on January 19, 1988 at Waterloo, IA: no injuries, minor damage. 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Atr 42 · operated under 121
improper use of procedures by maintenance personnel at an overhaul facility during overhaul of the landing gear, allowing corrosion to occur on the barrel lugs of the landing gear, which subsequently led to fatigue cracking of the lugs and eventual collapse of the gear.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI96IA125 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Aerospatiale ATR-42 · operated under 121
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI88IA045 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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