Diamond Aircraft DA 40
N71LA is a Diamond Aircraft DA 40, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2005. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Gadsden, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 18, 2012 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated March 6, 2008.
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
- 40.471
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-M1A+ · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- A97AAF (octal 52275257)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 18, 2012
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · March 6, 2008
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00157069
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Haralson Catherine Laura Kessler
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 413 Briarcliff Rd
Gadsden, AL 35901-5713
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.
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The public federal record on N71LA, 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 Haralson Catherine Laura Kessler, an individual, certificate issued October 18, 2012, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 6, 2008, 3 years after the 2005 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 40.471 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N71LA 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N71LA. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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