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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cirrus Design Corp
- Model
- SR20 · all SR20s 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. With a whole-airframe parachute. This is how the Cirrus SR20 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
- 1798
- 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 · Cont Motor IO-360-ES · 210 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2007
- Transponder code
- A5CC8B (octal 51346213)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 21, 2016
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 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 · June 19, 2007
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00368839
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Aerosim Academy INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 2700 Flightline Ave
Sanford, FL 32773-9683
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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
Connections how N473DA links to the rest of the register
- Cirrus SR20 1,631 registered
- Cirrus Design Corp 9,492 aircraft on the register
- Built of composite · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental IO-360-ES 401 aircraft with this engine series · 210 hp
- Aerosim Academy INC 45 aircraft in the fleet
- Sanford, FL 119 aircraft registered in this town
- Florida 21,706 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cirrus SR20 18 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cirrus SR20 297 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cirrus SR20 145 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental IO-360-ES 16 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental IO-360-ES 176 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Magneto, malfunctioned · 2012-07-13
- Report filed on this aircraft: Pump, out of tolerance · 2012-06-24
- Report filed on this aircraft: Crankcase, cracked · 2009-03-23
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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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data