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Diamond Aircraft DA 40
N187DS is a Diamond Aircraft DA 40, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2005. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Sfl Enterprises LLC, an LLC in Speedwell, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 25, 2010 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 31, 2005.
Diamond Aircraft: eDA40 electric trainer, Austria
Where is it now Last seen Monday at 4:31 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
- 40.574
- 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
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- A15B09 (octal 50255411)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 25, 2010
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 31, 2005
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00212009
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sfl Enterprises LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 222
Speedwell, VA 24374-0222
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N187DS 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+ 551 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Sfl Enterprises LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Speedwell, VA 1 aircraft registered in this town
- Virginia 5,973 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Diamond Aircraft DA 40 Diamond Star 25 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
- Report filed on this aircraft: Resistor, damaged · 2007-07-10
- Where N187DS is now · Last seen Monday at 4:31 pm.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N187DS.json.
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The public federal record on N187DS, 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 Sfl Enterprises LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 25, 2010, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated October 31, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 40.574 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N187DS according to the deregistered file. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N187DS. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 4, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data