Diamond Aircraft DA 42
N822SA is a Diamond Aircraft DA 42, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 2006. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Pughs Air West LLC, an LLC in Carlsbad, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 12, 2021 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 8, 2011.
Diamond Aircraft: eDA40 electric trainer, Austria
Aircraft
- Maker
- Diamond Aircraft (Austria)FAA spelling: DIAMOND AIRCRAFT IND INC
- Model
- DA 42 · all DA 42s and related versions
- Serial number
- 42.AC006
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Austro E4 SERIES · 168 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2006
- Transponder code
- AB39DA (octal 52634732)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 12, 2021
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 8, 2011
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00285639
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Pughs Air West LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 7005 Cattail Pl
Carlsbad, CA 92011-4011
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N822SA, 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 Pughs Air West LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 12, 2021, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 8, 2011, 5 years after the 2006 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 42.AC006 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N822SA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aerospatiale AS350 B2 ECUREUIL (serial 2467, cancelled April 22, 1997). 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 N822SA: Accident on April 19, 2022 at Long Beach, CA: 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 42 · operated under 091
The failure of the right main landing gear brace rib for reasons that could not be determined based on available information.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR22LA159 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