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Diamond Aircraft DA 40
N213DS is a Diamond Aircraft DA 40, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2004. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Lexington Flying Club INC, a corporation in Lexington, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 24, 2019 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated March 5, 2004.
Diamond Aircraft: eDA40 electric trainer, Austria
Where is it now Last seen yesterday at 12:56 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
- 40.360
- 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 I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2004
- Transponder code
- A1C503 (octal 50342403)
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 24, 2019
- Expires
- May 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 4, 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 · Normal; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 5, 2004
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00094509
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lexington Flying Club INC (flying club: its whole fleet and safety record)
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 863
Lexington, KY 40588-0863
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N213DS 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 series 8,560 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Lexington Flying Club INC 4 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Lexington, KY 193 aircraft registered in this town
- Blue Grass Airport · LEX
- Kentucky 2,978 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 series 42 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-360 series 39 reports since 1995
- Where N213DS is now · Last seen yesterday at 12:56 pm.
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The public federal record on N213DS, 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 Lexington Flying Club INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 24, 2019, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated March 5, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 40.360 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N213DS 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]
1 NTSB record under N213DS: Incident on October 28, 1982 at Wilmington, DE: no injuries, minor 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: Beech E90 · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 5, 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 5, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data