Diamond Aircraft DA 40
N232DS 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 an individual in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 1, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated September 9, 2005.
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
- 40.553
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- A2104A (octal 50410112)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 1, 2023
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · September 9, 2005
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00202059
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smith William
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 12654 Chianti Ct
Colorado Springs, CO 80921-1201
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 N232DS, 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 Smith William, an individual, certificate issued March 1, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated September 9, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 40.553 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N232DS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Hispano Aviacion HA-200 SAETA (serial E.14A-16, cancelled April 2, 2013). 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 N232DS: Accident on August 26, 2002 at Bakersfield, CA: 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Hispano Aviacion HA-200 SAETA · operated under 091
the pilot's improper fuel system management, which lead to fuel starvation, and a loss of engine power. A factor in the accident was the pilot's decision to continue on the second leg of the flight with the gear in the extended position, which increased the fuel consumption and reduced the aircraft's available range.
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