Diamond Aircraft DA 40
N208DS 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 Mcshane Family Aviation LLC, an LLC in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 10, 2025 and expires on September 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated November 18, 2005. 2 documents are on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership), loan release.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Diamond Aircraft (Austria)FAA spelling: DIAMOND AIRCRAFT IND INC
- Model
- DA 40 · all DA 40s and related versions
- Serial number
- 40.587
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-M1A+ · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- A1B017 (octal 50330027)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 10, 2025
- Expires
- September 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- September 10, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · November 18, 2005
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00216599
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mcshane Family Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 3601 Vartan Way
Harrisburg, PA 17110-9440
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 2
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N208DS, 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 Mcshane Family Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 10, 2025, expires September 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated November 18, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 40.587 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N208DS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell 212 (serial 30618, cancelled December 29, 1995). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
2 documents received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 11, 2026), Loan release (September 11, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N208DS. 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 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