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Diamond Aircraft DA20-C1
N959DA 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 Cae Doss Aviation INC, a corporation in Pueblo, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 8, 2021 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated December 8, 2021.
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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
- C0216
- 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
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2003
- Transponder code
- AD5662 (octal 53253142)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 8, 2021
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 19, 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 · December 8, 2021
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00048909
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cae Doss Aviation INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1 William White Blvd
Pueblo, CO 81001-4829
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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
Connections how N959DA 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
- Cae Doss Aviation INC 59 aircraft in the fleet
- Pueblo, CO 148 aircraft registered in this town
- Pueblo Memorial · PUB
- Colorado 7,454 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
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N959DA.json.
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The public federal record on N959DA, 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 Cae Doss Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 8, 2021, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 8, 2021, 18 years after the 2003 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 C0216 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N959DA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Diamond Aircraft DA20-C1 (serial C0469, cancelled June 3, 2014). 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]
1 NTSB record under N959DA: Accident on January 29, 2014 at Fort Carson, CO: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Diamond Aircraft Ind INC DA20-C1 · operated under 091
The flight instructor's loss of control after takeoff following a wake turbulence encounter from a preceding helicopter. Contributing to the accident were the flight instructor's misidentification of the helicopter type and a lack of Federal Aviation Administration wake turbulence separation criteria for a small airplane following a helicopter.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data