Diamond Aircraft DA 40
N156U is a Diamond Aircraft DA 40, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2025. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Utah State Univeristy, a government body in Logan, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 21, 2025 and expires on April 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated March 19, 2025.
Diamond Aircraft: eDA40 electric trainer, Austria
Aircraft
- Maker
- Diamond Aircraft (Austria)FAA spelling: DIAMOND AIRCRAFT IND INC
- Model
- DA 40 · all DA 40s and related versions
- Serial number
- 40.1252
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-M1A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2025
- Transponder code
- A0E23B (octal 50161073)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 21, 2025
- Expires
- April 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · March 19, 2025
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01496161
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Utah State Univeristy
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 2500 N 900 W Ste 9
Logan, UT 84321-1709
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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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N156U, 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 Utah State Univeristy, a government body, certificate issued April 21, 2025, expires April 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated March 19, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 40.1252 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N156U was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech V35A (serial D-8840, cancelled December 19, 2002). 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 N156U: Accident on June 30, 2002 at Ojai, CA: fatal, destroyed (3 fatal). 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: Beech V-35A · operated under 091
the pilot's inadequate in-flight planning and failure to maintain an adequate terrain clearance altitude within the canyon.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data