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A Diamond Aircraft DA 42 Twin Star, the same model family as N503TS
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N503TS

Diamond Aircraft DA 42

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesElectric airplaneRhode Island

N503TS 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 Cox Aviation LLC, an LLC in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 7, 2016 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 28, 2007.

Diamond Aircraft: eDA40 electric trainer, Austria

Where is it now Last seen October 14 at 2:49 pm.

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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
composite
The 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.AC103
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 · Thielert TAE 125-02-99 · 132 hp
Seats
4
Year built
2007
Transponder code
A646CF (octal 51443317)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
November 7, 2016
Expires
November 30, 2029
Last FAA action
September 15, 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 28, 2007
FAA region
New EnglandFAA region code E (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00441469

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Cox Aviation 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
728 Wapping Rd
Portsmouth, RI 02871-5117

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Connections how N503TS links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
  • Cox Aviation LLC 8 aircraft in the fleet
  • Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · expired
Place
  • Portsmouth, RI 5 aircraft registered in this town
  • Rhode Island 361 aircraft registered
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The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N503TS.json.

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The public federal record on N503TS, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Cox Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 7, 2016, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated November 28, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 42.AC103 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N503TS according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N503TS. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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 29, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data