Diamond Aircraft DA 42 NG
N738LA is a Diamond Aircraft DA 42 NG, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 2024. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Elizabeth City State University, a government body in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 19, 2024 and expires on April 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 25, 2024.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Diamond Aircraft (Austria)FAA spelling: DIAMOND AIRCRAFT IND GMBH
- Model
- DA 42 NG · all DA 42 NGs and related versions
- Built of
- compositeThe 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.N538
- 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 · Austro E4 SERIES · 168 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2024
- Transponder code
- A9E9BE (octal 52364676)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 19, 2024
- Expires
- April 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- April 19, 2024
- 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 · March 25, 2024
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01442347
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Elizabeth City State University (university or college with a flight programme: its whole fleet and safety record)
- Type
- GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1704 Weeksville Rd
Elizabeth City, NC 27909-7977
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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 1
Connections how N738LA links to the rest of the register
- Diamond Aircraft DA 42 Twin Star 265 registered
- Diamond Aircraft 1,875 aircraft on the register
- Built of composite · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Austro Engine E4 series 133 aircraft with this engine series · 168 hp
- Elizabeth City State University 22 aircraft in the fleet
- Elizabeth City, NC 63 aircraft registered in this town
- Elizabeth City CG Air Station/Rgnl · ECG
- North Carolina 7,117 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Diamond Aircraft DA 42 Twin Star 27 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Diamond Aircraft DA 42 Twin Star 313 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Diamond Aircraft DA 42 Twin Star 39 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N738LA, 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 Elizabeth City State University, a government body, certificate issued April 19, 2024, expires April 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated March 25, 2024, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 42.N538 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N738LA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172N (serial 17270051, cancelled March 5, 1996). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N738LA. 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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data