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Diamond Aircraft DA 40
N895AM is a Diamond Aircraft DA 40, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2008. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Irvine, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 2, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated February 15, 2008.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Diamond Aircraft (Austria)FAA spelling: DIAMOND AIRCRAFT IND INC
- Model
- DA 40 · all DA 40s 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 40 Diamond 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
- 40.895
- 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 · Lycoming IO-360-M1A+ · 180 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2008
- Transponder code
- AC57F3 (octal 53053763)
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 2, 2023
- Expires
- May 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 20, 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 · Normal; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 15, 2008
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00469429
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Meng Ye
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 21 Gramercy Unit 222
Irvine, CA 92612-0011
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N895AM links to the rest of the register
- Diamond Aircraft DA 40 Diamond Star 1,018 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
- Lycoming IO-360-M1A+ 551 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Irvine, CA 148 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,761 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Diamond Aircraft DA 40 Diamond Star 25 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Diamond Aircraft DA 40 Diamond Star 300 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Diamond Aircraft DA 40 Diamond Star 121 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-360-M1A+ 22 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-360-M1A+ 128 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N895AM, 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 Meng Ye, an individual, certificate issued May 2, 2023, expires May 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated February 15, 2008, consistent with the 2008 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 40.895 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N895AM 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 N895AM: Incident on October 19, 2024 at Long Beach, CA. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Diamond Aircraft Ind INC DA 40 · operated under 091
On October 19, 2024, at 1450 pacific daylight time (PDT), a Diamond DA40, N895AM, and a Boeing 737-7H4, N250WN, operated as SWA1671, were involved in a runway incursion in Long Beach, CA. There were no injuries reported and none of the aircraft were damaged. N895AM was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 91 personal flight and had departed Camarillo Airport (CMA) with a destination of Long Beach Airport, Daugherty Field (LGB). SWA1671 was operated as a Title 14 CFR Part 121 passenger flight and had departed San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport (OAK) with a …
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 5, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data