Diamond Aircraft DA 40 NG
N499BW is a Diamond Aircraft DA 40 NG, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2018. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Gallagher Homes LLC, an LLC in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 6, 2023 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 28, 2018.
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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
- Serial number
- 40.NC020
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Austro E4-A · 168 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 2018
- Transponder code
- A631B5 (octal 51430665)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 6, 2023
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 28, 2018
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01279241
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gallagher Homes LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 100 Annie G Way
Chapel Hill, NC 27517-9623
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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 N499BW, 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 Gallagher Homes LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 6, 2023, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated June 28, 2018, consistent with the 2018 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 40.NC020 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N499BW 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 N499BW: Accident on May 7, 2025 at Sanford, NC: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Diamond Aircraft Ind INC DA 40 NG · operated under 091
On May 7, 2025, about 1600 eastern daylight time, a Diamond Aircraft DA 40 NG, N499BW, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Sanford, North Carolina. The pilot and passenger were seriously injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. According to the passenger, who also served as the mechanic for the airplane, he completed the annual inspection on the airplane the week before the accident flight. He further stated that the pilot approached him on the day of the accident and asked him to check his gearbox oil …
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- 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