Diamond Aircraft DA 40
N173MA is a Diamond Aircraft DA 40, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2003. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Stellar Aviation LLC, an LLC in Benton, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 9, 2024 and expires on January 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated June 10, 2003.
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
- 40.292
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2003
- Transponder code
- A12566 (octal 50222546)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 9, 2024
- Expires
- January 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- January 31, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · June 10, 2003
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00051159
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Stellar Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 2222 US Highway 68 E
Benton, KY 42025
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 N173MA, 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 Stellar Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 9, 2024, expires January 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated June 10, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 40.292 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N173MA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Swearingen SA227-AC (serial AC415, cancelled August 13, 1991). 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 N173MA: Accident on October 17, 1982 at Indianapolis, IN: no injuries, substantial damage. 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: Swearingen SA227-AC · operated under 135
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