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
Aircraft
- Maker
- Diamond Aircraft (Austria)FAA spelling: DIAMOND AIRCRAFT IND INC
- Model
- DA 40 NG · all DA 40 NGs and related versions
- Serial number
- 40.NC157
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Austro E4-A · 168 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 2021
- Transponder code
- A607E2 (octal 51403742)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 2, 2022
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · November 18, 2021
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01354160
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wild Blue Yonder LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- C/O Kruggel Lawton
210 S Michigan St Ste 200
South Bend, IN 46601-2024
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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear
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 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