Diamond Aircraft DA 42
N48DS is a Diamond Aircraft DA 42, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 2007. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Eydon LLC, an LLC in Boca Grande, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 5, 2023 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 29, 2022.
Diamond Aircraft: eDA40 electric trainer, Austria
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Diamond Aircraft (Austria)FAA spelling: DIAMOND AIRCRAFT IND INC
- Model
- DA 42 · all DA 42s 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 42 Twin 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
- 42.AC070
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (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, 2 motors · Technify TAE125-02-114 · 152 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2007
- Transponder code
- A5E69C (octal 51363234)
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 5, 2023
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- April 5, 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 · January 29, 2022
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01358781
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Eydon 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
- PO Box 1401
Boca Grande, FL 33921-1401
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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 N48DS links to the rest of the register
- Diamond Aircraft DA 42 Twin Star 266 registered
- Diamond Aircraft 1,876 aircraft on the register
- Built of composite · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Technify TAE125-02-114 30 aircraft with this engine series · 152 hp
- Eydon LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Boca Grande, FL 8 aircraft registered in this town
- Florida 21,706 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Diamond Aircraft DA 42 Twin Star 27 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Diamond Aircraft DA 42 Twin Star 313 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Diamond Aircraft DA 42 Twin Star 39 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Technify TAE125-02-114 7 airworthiness directives
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The public federal record on N48DS, 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 Eydon LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 5, 2023, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 29, 2022, 15 years after the 2007 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 42.AC070 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N48DS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Stiles Charles R BARRACUDA (serial 216, cancelled November 26, 2014). 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 N48DS: Accident on October 17, 1988 at Ypsilanti, MI: 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: Experimental BARRACUDA · operated under 091
PILOT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN CONTROL OF THE AIRCRAFT DURING LANDING AND INABILITY TO APPROPRIATELY CORRECT FOR THE PORPOISE ACTION OF THE AIRCRAFT.
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
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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data