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
Where is it now Last seen today at 9:58 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Diamond Aircraft (Austria)FAA spelling: DIAMOND AIRCRAFT IND INC
- Model
- DA 40 · all DA 40s 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 40 Diamond 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
- 40.1252
- 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 · Lycoming IO-360-M1A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2025
- Transponder code
- A0E23B (octal 50161073)
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 21, 2025
- Expires
- April 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 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 · Normal; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 19, 2025
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01496161
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Utah State Univeristy
- Type
- GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- 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
Connections how N156U links to the rest of the register
- Diamond Aircraft DA 40 Diamond Star 1,018 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
- Lycoming IO-360-M1A 550 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Utah State Univeristy 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Logan, UT 129 aircraft registered in this town
- Logan-Cache Airport · LGU
- Utah 8,360 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Diamond Aircraft DA 40 Diamond Star 24 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Diamond Aircraft DA 40 Diamond Star 300 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Diamond Aircraft DA 40 Diamond Star 121 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 N156U is now · Last seen today at 9:58 pm.
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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 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 28, 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 28, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data