Diamond Aircraft DA 42 NG
N859LF is a Diamond Aircraft DA 42 NG, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 2016. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Lunken Flight Training Center LLC, an LLC in Cincinnati, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 14, 2025 and expires on May 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 12, 2016.
Diamond Aircraft: eDA40 electric trainer, Austria
Where is it now Last seen yesterday at 12:29 pm.
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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.N207
- 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
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2016
- Transponder code
- ABC9C7 (octal 52744707)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 14, 2025
- Expires
- May 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- September 25, 2025
- 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 · May 12, 2016
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01217562
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lunken Flight Training Center LLC (flight school: its whole fleet and safety record)
- 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
- 4500 Airport Rd
Cincinnati, OH 45226-1601
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N859LF links to the rest of the register
- Diamond Aircraft DA 42 Twin Star 266 registered
- Diamond Aircraft 1,877 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
- Lunken Flight Training Center LLC 10 aircraft in the fleet
- Cincinnati, OH 296 aircraft registered in this town
- Cincinnati Muni/Lunken Field · LUK
- Ohio 8,531 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
- Where N859LF is now · Last seen yesterday at 12:29 pm.
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The public federal record on N859LF, 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 Lunken Flight Training Center LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 14, 2025, expires May 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated May 12, 2016, consistent with the 2016 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 42.N207 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N859LF 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 N859LF. 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 November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 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 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data