Diamond Aircraft DA 40
N482MA is a Diamond Aircraft DA 40, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2005. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Happy Landings LLC, an LLC in Wake Forest, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 3, 2022 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated September 2, 2005.
Diamond Aircraft: eDA40 electric trainer, Austria
Aircraft
- Maker
- Diamond Aircraft (Austria)FAA spelling: DIAMOND AIRCRAFT IND INC
- Model
- DA 40 · all DA 40s and related versions
- Serial number
- 40.552
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-M1A+ · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- A5F11B (octal 51370433)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 3, 2022
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · September 2, 2005
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00201189
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Happy Landings LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 7305 Quercus Ct
Wake Forest, NC 27587-5397
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N482MA, 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 Happy Landings LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 3, 2022, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated September 2, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 40.552 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N482MA 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 N482MA: Accident on May 9, 2009 at Montgomery, NY: 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: Diamond Aircraft Ind INC DA 40 · operated under 091
The student pilot's failure to maintain aircraft control on landing. Contributing to the accident was the flight instructor's lack of total experience as an instructor and delayed corrective action.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA09CA299 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data