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Diamond Aircraft DA20-C1
N965CT is a Diamond Aircraft DA20-C1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Cae Aviation Academy Phoenix LLC, an LLC in Mesa, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 13, 2025 and expires on February 29, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated March 24, 1999.
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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
- C0065
- 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 0-200 SERIES · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- AD6EFD (octal 53267375)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 13, 2025
- Expires
- February 29, 2032
- Last FAA action
- February 13, 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 · UtilityFAA certificate purpose code U (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 24, 1999
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00233747
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cae Aviation Academy Phoenix 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
- E Falcon Dr
Mesa, AZ 85215
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N965CT links to the rest of the register
- Diamond Aircraft DA20 Katana and Eclipse 364 registered
- Diamond Aircraft 1,875 aircraft on the register
- Built of composite · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental O-200 series 8,790 aircraft with this engine series · 100 hp
- Cae Aviation Academy Phoenix LLC 55 aircraft in the fleet
- Mesa, AZ 714 aircraft registered in this town
- Falcon Field · FFZ
- Arizona 8,422 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
- FAA orders naming the Continental O-200 series 8 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental O-200 series 1 reports since 1995
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Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N965CT, 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 Aviation Academy Phoenix LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 13, 2025, expires February 29, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial C0065 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N965CT 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 N965CT. 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 October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data