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Diamond Aircraft DA20-C1
N857PA is a Diamond Aircraft DA20-C1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2003. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Diamond Aircraft Sales of Kentucky LLC, an LLC in Henderson, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 1, 2020 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated June 13, 2003.
Diamond Aircraft: eDA40 electric trainer, Austria
Where is it now Last seen October 28 at 11:20 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Diamond Aircraft (Austria)FAA spelling: DIAMOND AIRCRAFT IND INC
- Model
- DA20-C1 · all DA20-C1s 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 DA20 Katana and Eclipse 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
- C0218
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (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, 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-240 SER · 128 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2003
- Transponder code
- ABC29F (octal 52741237)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 1, 2020
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- 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 · UtilityFAA certificate purpose code U (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 13, 2003
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00052159
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Diamond Aircraft Sales of Kentucky LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 2036 State Route 136 W
Henderson, KY 42420-9662
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.
Connections how N857PA links to the rest of the register
- Diamond Aircraft DA20 Katana and Eclipse 364 registered
- Diamond Aircraft 1,876 aircraft on the register
- Built of composite · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental IO-240 series 111 aircraft with this engine series · 128 hp
- Diamond Aircraft Sales Of Kentucky LLC 23 aircraft in the fleet
- Henderson, KY 46 aircraft registered in this town
- Henderson City-County · EHR
- Kentucky 2,977 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Diamond Aircraft DA20 Katana and Eclipse 15 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Diamond Aircraft DA20 Katana and Eclipse 657 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Diamond Aircraft DA20 Katana and Eclipse 105 supplemental type certificates
- Report filed on this aircraft: Fork, cracked · 2006-05-30
- Where N857PA is now · Last seen October 28 at 11:20 am.
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The public federal record on N857PA, 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 Diamond Aircraft Sales of Kentucky LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 1, 2020, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility, dated June 13, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial C0218 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N857PA 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]
1 NTSB record under N857PA: Incident on December 9, 2023 at North Las Vegas, NV: no injuries. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Diamond Aircraft Ind INC DA20-C1 · operated under UNK
The local controller’s loss of situational awareness, inadequate provision of traffic advisory or safety alert information, and lack of positive control, that resulted in a near-midair collision.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 4, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data