Diamond Aircraft DA20-A1
N856DF is a Diamond Aircraft DA20-A1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1996. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Nassau County School Board, a government body in Fernandina Beach, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 15, 2019 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated March 11, 2008.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Diamond Aircraft (Austria)FAA spelling: DIAMOND AIRCRAFT IND INC
- Model
- DA20-A1 · all DA20-A1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 10170
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Bombardier ROTAX 912 F3 · 81 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1996
- Transponder code
- ABBDF3 (octal 52736763)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 15, 2019
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Utility · March 11, 2008
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00636081
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Nassau County School Board
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 1201 Atlantic Ave
Fernandina Beach, FL 32034-3403
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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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N856DF, 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 Nassau County School Board, a government body, certificate issued July 15, 2019, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 11, 2008, 12 years after the 1996 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 10170 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N856DF was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Diamond Aircraft DA20-A1 (serial 10126, cancelled September 21, 2005). 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 N856DF. 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