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N883DA

Adams Don L STARLIGHT

Valid Texas

N883DA is an Adams Don L STARLIGHT, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Tulia, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 6, 2008 and expires on April 30, 2027. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Adams Don L
Model
STARLIGHT
Serial number
103
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Four-cycle piston, 1 motor
Seats
1
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
AC2946 (octal 53024506)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 6, 2008
Expires
April 30, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00466139

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Adams Don L
Type
Individual
Address
PO Box T
Tulia, TX 79088-0920

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

1997-04-30Diamond Aircraft DA20-A1 · exported to Canada · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N883DA, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Adams Don L, an individual, certificate issued March 6, 2008, expires April 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate

No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 103 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N883DA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Diamond Aircraft DA20-A1 (serial 10283, cancelled April 30, 1997). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N883DA. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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