Diamond Aircraft DA 40
N248DS is a Diamond Aircraft DA 40, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2011. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Michiana Air Activities INC, a corporation in Osceola, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 23, 2025 and expires on May 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated August 25, 2011.
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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
- 40.1118
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-M1A+ · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2011
- Transponder code
- A24E13 (octal 50447023)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 23, 2025
- Expires
- May 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- May 23, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · August 25, 2011
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01077125
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Michiana Air Activities INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 303
Osceola, IN 46561-0303
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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N248DS, 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 Michiana Air Activities INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 23, 2025, expires May 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated August 25, 2011, consistent with the 2011 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 40.1118 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N248DS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Diamond Aircraft DA 40 (serial 40.248, cancelled February 5, 2007). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N248DS. 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 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