{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2023-06-12","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"","city":"NASHVILLE","country_code":"US","county_code":"037","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"06400","engine_horsepower":168,"engine_maker":"AUSTRO","engine_model":"E4 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-twins","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-07-07","maker":"Diamond Aircraft","maker_country":"AT","maker_raw":"DIAMOND AIRCRAFT IND GMBH","maker_segment":"Piloted electric and eVTOL","mfr_mdl_code":"2990105","mode_s_code":"50471172","mode_s_hex":"A2727A","model":"DA 42 NG","n_number":"N257LA","name":"REGISTRATION PENDING","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Anguilla","damage":"DEST","date":"2001-06-02","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"ATL01LA063","probable_cause":"Failure of both pilots to maintain visual lookout, resulting in an in-flight collision. The air tractor pilot operated the positioning flight at an altitude below 500 feet agl. Valium was detected in the toxicological examination of the Air Tractor  pilot.","registration":"N257LA","state":"MS","summary":"Accident on June 2, 2001 at Anguilla, MS: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N257LA is a Diamond Aircraft DA 42 NG, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 2023. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Nashville, Tennessee. The FAA lists the registration as \"registration pending\". It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 12, 2023.","records_check":[{"finding":"Registration status is \"Registration pending\". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated June 12, 2023, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 42.N507 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N257LA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Air Tractor Inc AT-502B (serial 502B-0257, cancelled February 13, 2013). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N257LA: Accident on June 2, 2001 at Anguilla, MS: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Central","region_code":"3","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":4,"serial_number":"42.N507","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TN","status":"Registration pending","status_code":"R","status_short":"Pending","street":"1629 7TH AVE N","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"01405744","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N257LA","watchlist_group":"Electric airplane","watchlist_note":"eDA40 electric trainer, Austria","weight_class":"","year_mfr":2023,"zip":"372082219"}