Diamond Aircraft DA 40
N173RS 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 Shining Ventures LLC, an LLC in Houston, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 11, 2023 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated November 28, 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
- 40.336
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-M1A+ · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2003
- Transponder code
- A125DA (octal 50222732)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 11, 2023
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- February 11, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · November 28, 2003
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00078609
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Shining Ventures LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 3260 Locke Ln
Houston, TX 77019-6208
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 N173RS, 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 Shining Ventures LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 11, 2023, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated November 28, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 40.336 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N173RS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bean Robert E WITTMAN TAILWIND W10 (serial 001032028RS, cancelled March 16, 2001). 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]
2 NTSB records under N173RS: Accident on April 12, 1999 at Wimauma, FL: minor injuries, substantial damage. Accident on June 8, 1998 at Daytona Beach, FL: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bean WHITMAN W-10 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain a visual lookout during a forced landing resulting in an in-flight collision with a ditch and subsequent nose over.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Robert E. Bean WITTMAN TAILWIND W10 · operated under 091
The pilot's poorly planned approach for not planning the intended touchdown point farther down the runway to avoid an area of known turbulence caused by terrain. Contributing to the accident was the turbulence.
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