Diamond Aircraft DA 40 NG
N457SA is a Diamond Aircraft DA 40 NG, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2023. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Basils Best Flights LLC, an LLC in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 8, 2026 and expires on June 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 2, 2023.
Diamond Aircraft: eDA40 electric trainer, Austria
Aircraft
- Maker
- Diamond Aircraft (Austria)FAA spelling: DIAMOND AIRCRAFT IND INC
- Model
- DA 40 NG · all DA 40 NGs and related versions
- Serial number
- 40.NC267
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Austro E4-A · 168 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 2023
- Transponder code
- A58DAE (octal 51306656)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 8, 2026
- Expires
- June 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- June 8, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · November 2, 2023
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01426500
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Basils Best Flights LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 210 Airport Rd
New Cumberland, PA 17070-2467
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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 3
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The public federal record on N457SA, 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 Basils Best Flights LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 8, 2026, expires June 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated November 2, 2023, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 40.NC267 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N457SA was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Cirrus Design Corp SR22 (serial 3478, cancelled August 24, 2010); Piper PA-28-181 (serial 2843457, cancelled June 11, 2007); Britten-Norman BN-2A (serial 27, cancelled February 7, 1991). 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]
1 NTSB record under N457SA: Accident on January 16, 1989 at Carolina, PR: no injuries, substantial 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Britten-Norman BN-2A · operated under 135
FUEL EXHAUSTION AND THE FAILURE OF THE PILOT TO INSURE THAT THE PROPER FUEL LOAD WAS PLACED ON THE AIRCRAFT FOR THE FLIGHT. CONTRIBUTING FACTORS INCLUDED THE IMPROPER REFUELING OF THE AIRCRAFT, IMPROPER INITIAL TRAINING OF THE REFUELER AND THE CROP, WHICH CAUSED SUBSTANTIAL DAMAGE TO THE AIRCRAFT.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA89FA065 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