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Diamond Aircraft DA 40 NG
N471BL is a Diamond Aircraft DA 40 NG, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2020. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Blue Line Aviation LLC, an LLC in Morrisville, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 21, 2021 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 5, 2020.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Diamond Aircraft (Austria)FAA spelling: DIAMOND AIRCRAFT IND INC
- Model
- DA 40 NG · all DA 40 NGs 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 DA 40 Diamond Star 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
- 40.NC111
- 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 · Austro E4-A · 168 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 2020
- Transponder code
- A5C4F5 (octal 51342365)
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 21, 2021
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 5, 2020
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01328474
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Blue Line Aviation LLC (flight school: its whole fleet and safety record)
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 2200 Gateway Centre Blvd Ste 208
Morrisville, NC 27560-9122
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N471BL links to the rest of the register
- Diamond Aircraft DA 40 Diamond Star 1,018 registered
- Diamond Aircraft 1,877 aircraft on the register
- Built of composite · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Austro Engine E4-A 291 aircraft with this engine series · 168 hp
- Blue Line Aviation LLC 26 aircraft in the fleet
- Morrisville, NC 35 aircraft registered in this town
- North Carolina 7,123 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Diamond Aircraft DA 40 Diamond Star 25 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Diamond Aircraft DA 40 Diamond Star 301 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Diamond Aircraft DA 40 Diamond Star 121 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N471BL, 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 Blue Line Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 21, 2021, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated November 5, 2020, consistent with the 2020 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 40.NC111 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N471BL 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]
1 NTSB record under N471BL: Accident on March 25, 2022 at Smithfield, NC: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Diamond Aircraft Ind INC DA 40 NG · operated under 091
Maintenance personnel’s failure to set the correct engine timing after the replacement of a cylinder head and exhaust camshaft before the accident flight, which resulted in a total loss of engine power.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 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, November 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data