Diamond Aircraft DA 40
N231DS is a Diamond Aircraft DA 40, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2007. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Brighton, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 11, 2013 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated August 31, 2007.
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
- 40.830
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-M1A+ · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2007
- Transponder code
- A20C93 (octal 50406223)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 11, 2013
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · August 31, 2007
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00404139
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Folkvord Svein
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 7964 Winans Lake Rd
Brighton, MI 48116-8891
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 N231DS, 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 Folkvord Svein, an individual, certificate issued January 11, 2013, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated August 31, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 40.830 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N231DS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mooney Aircraft Corp. M20K (serial 250127, cancelled August 28, 1998). 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 N231DS: Accident on January 7, 1998 at Vernon, TX: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). 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: Mooney M20K · operated under 091
the loss of control during cruise flight for undetermined reasons.
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