Diamond Aircraft DA 42
N980JA is a Diamond Aircraft DA 42, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 2007. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Skywest Leasing INC, a corporation in St George, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 20, 2023 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 21, 2009.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Bountiful Flight, LLC, so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
Diamond Aircraft: eDA40 electric trainer, Austria
Where is it now Last seen October 29 at 1:23 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Diamond Aircraft (Austria)FAA spelling: DIAMOND AIRCRAFT IND GMBH
- Model
- DA 42 · all DA 42s 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
- 42.277
- 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 · Lycoming IO-360-M1A+ · 180 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2007
- Transponder code
- ADABED (octal 53325755)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 20, 2023
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- April 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 21, 2009
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00413859
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Skywest Leasing 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
- 444 S River Rd
St George, UT 84790-2085
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
Connections how N980JA links to the rest of the register
- Diamond Aircraft DA 42 Twin Star 266 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
- Bountiful Flight, LLC · charter operator
- Lycoming IO-360-M1A+ 551 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Skywest Leasing INC 112 aircraft in the fleet
- St George, UT 677 aircraft registered in this town
- St. George Regional · SGU
- Utah 8,350 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
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-360-M1A+ 22 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-360-M1A+ 128 reports since 1995
- Where N980JA is now · Last seen October 29 at 1:23 pm.
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The public federal record on N980JA, 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 Skywest Leasing INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 20, 2023, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 21, 2009, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 42.277 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N980JA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172S (serial 172S10546, cancelled March 10, 2016). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N980JA. 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 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
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 5, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data