Diamond Aircraft DA 40
N499W is a Diamond Aircraft DA 40, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2004. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Granger, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 11, 2021 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated October 5, 2004.
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
- 40.423
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2004
- Transponder code
- A6337B (octal 51431573)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 11, 2021
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 6, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · October 5, 2004
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00134369
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lee Chris
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 17683 Saint Patricks Ct
Granger, IN 46530-7833
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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 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N499W, 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 Lee Chris, an individual, certificate issued August 11, 2021, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated October 5, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 40.423 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N499W was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 401 (serial 401-0273, cancelled October 14, 2014); Buckley Aircraft Company LC 4 (serial 1, cancelled July 1, 1935). 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 N499W: Accident on March 18, 1982 at Sunflower, AZ: fatal, destroyed (5 fatal). 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: Cessna 401 · operated under 135
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX82FA111 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
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