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Diamond Aircraft DA 40 NG
N488SA is a Diamond Aircraft DA 40 NG, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2021. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Wild Blue Yonder LLC, an LLC in South Bend, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 2, 2022 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 18, 2021.
Diamond Aircraft: eDA40 electric trainer, Austria
Where is it now Last seen Sunday at 8:00 pm.
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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.NC157
- 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
- 2021
- Transponder code
- A607E2 (octal 51403742)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 2, 2022
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 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 18, 2021
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01354160
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wild Blue Yonder LLC
- 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
- C/O Kruggel Lawton
210 S Michigan St Ste 200
South Bend, IN 46601-2024
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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 N488SA links to the rest of the register
- Diamond Aircraft DA 40 Diamond Star 1,018 registered
- Diamond Aircraft 1,875 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
- Wild Blue Yonder LLC 6 aircraft in the fleet
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · expired
- South Bend, IN 62 aircraft registered in this town
- South Bend International · SBN
- Indiana 5,701 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 300 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Diamond Aircraft DA 40 Diamond Star 121 supplemental type certificates
- Where N488SA is now · Last seen Sunday at 8:00 pm.
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The public federal record on N488SA, 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 Wild Blue Yonder LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 2, 2022, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated November 18, 2021, consistent with the 2021 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 40.NC157 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N488SA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell UH-1B (serial 63-8544, cancelled May 11, 2015). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N488SA. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 3, 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 3, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data