Diamond Aircraft DA 40
N157U 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 University, a government body in Logan, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 13, 2025 and expires on May 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated April 16, 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
- 40.1253
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-M1A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2025
- Transponder code
- A0E5F2 (octal 50162762)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 13, 2025
- Expires
- May 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- May 13, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · April 16, 2025
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01500898
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Utah State University
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 2500 N 900 W Fl9
Logan, UT 84321
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N157U, 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 University, a government body, certificate issued May 13, 2025, expires May 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated April 16, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 40.1253 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N157U was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Douglas DC3 (serial 4132, cancelled March 6, 2003). 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 N157U: Accident on May 5, 1985 at Perris, CA: no injuries, destroyed. 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: Douglas DC3 · operated under 125
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX85FA240 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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 August 27, 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