Diamond Aircraft DA 40 NG
N686MF is a Diamond Aircraft DA 40 NG, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 5 seats. It is registered to an individual in New Orleans, Louisiana. The FAA lists the registration as "registration pending". No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
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.NC371
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A91A9A (octal 52215232)
Registration
- Status
- Registration pending
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2026
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01559921
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Registration Pending
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1470 Urania St
New Orleans, LA 70130-5239
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 · 4 to understand · 1 clear
The public federal record on N686MF, 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.
Registration status is "Registration pending". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 40.NC371 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N686MF was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Gippsland Aeronautics Pty Ltd GA 8 (serial GA8-07-113, cancelled December 4, 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 N686MF: Accident on September 4, 2026 at Leesburg, FL: 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: Diamond Aircraft Ind INC DA 40 NG · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data