Cirrus Design Corp SR20
N473DA is a Cirrus Design Corp SR20, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2007. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Aerosim Academy INC, a corporation in Sanford, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 21, 2016 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 19, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cirrus Design Corp
- Model
- SR20 · all SR20s and related versions
- Serial number
- 1798
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-360-ES · 210 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2007
- Transponder code
- A5CC8B (octal 51346213)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 21, 2016
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 19, 2007
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00368839
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Aerosim Academy INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 2700 Flightline Ave
Sanford, FL 32773-9683
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N473DA, 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 Aerosim Academy INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 21, 2016, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated June 19, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1798 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N473DA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Boeing 727-232 (serial 20750, cancelled July 27, 1989). 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 N473DA: Accident on August 31, 1988 at Dallas/Ft Worth, TX: fatal, destroyed (14 fatal). 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: Boeing 727-232 · operated under 121
(1) THE CAPTAIN AND FIRST OFFICER'S INADEQUATE COCKPIT DISCIPLINE WHICH RESULTED IN THE FLIGHTCREW'S ATTEMPT TO TAKEOFF WITHOUT THE WING FLAPS AND SLATS PROPERLY CONFIGURED; AND (2) THE FAILURE OF THE TAKEOFF CONFIGURATION WARNING SYSTEM TO ALERT THE CREW THAT THE AIRPLANE WAS NOT PROPERLY CONFIGURED FOR THE TAKEOFF. CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT WAS DELTA'S SLOW IMPLEMENTATION OF NECESSARY MODIFICATIONS TO ITS OPERATING PROCEDURES, MANUAL'S, CHECKLISTS, TRAINING, AND CREW CHECKING PROGRAMS WHICH WERE NECESSITATED BY SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN THE AIRLINE FOLLOWING RAPID GROWTH AND MERGER. ALSO CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT WAS THE LACK OF SUFFICIENTLY AGGRESSIVE ACTION BY THE FAA TO HAVE KNOWN DEFICIENCIES CORRECTED BY DELTA AND THE LACK OF SUFFICIENT ACCOUNTABILITY WITHIN THE FAA'S AIR CARRIER INSPECTION PROCESS.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DCA88MA072 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