{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2024-04-12","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2024-05-08","city":"BROWNSVILLE","country_code":"US","county_code":"061","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"06405","engine_horsepower":179,"engine_maker":"AUSTRO","engine_model":"E4P(SERIES)","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2031-05-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-twins","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2024-05-08","maker":"Diamond Aircraft","maker_country":"AT","maker_raw":"DIAMOND AIRCRAFT IND INC","maker_segment":"Piloted electric and eVTOL","mfr_mdl_code":"2990107","mode_s_code":"52507212","mode_s_hex":"AA8E8A","model":"DA 62","n_number":"N78DT","name":"DAVTAN LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Willmar","damage":"DEST","date":"2003-08-16","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"CHI03LA269","probable_cause":"The pilot's failure to maintain adequate airspeed resulting in an inadvertent stall/spin.","registration":"N78DT","state":"MN","summary":"Accident on August 16, 2003 at Willmar, MN: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"DAVTAN TRANSPORT","plain_english":"N78DT is a Diamond Aircraft DA 62, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2024. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Davtan LLC, an LLC in Brownsville, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 8, 2024 and expires on May 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 12, 2024.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Davtan LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 8, 2024, expires May 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated April 12, 2024, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 62.C075 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N78DT was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Holden James D PULSAR (serial 218, cancelled August 8, 2012). 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 N78DT: Accident on August 16, 2003 at Willmar, MN: 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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":7,"serial_number":"62.C075","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"3261 E 14TH ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Four-cycle piston","type_engine_code":"8","unique_id":"01448339","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N78DT","watchlist_group":"Electric airplane","watchlist_note":"eDA40 electric trainer, Austria","weight_class":"","year_mfr":2024,"zip":"785213317"}