Diamond Aircraft DA 40
N249DS is a Diamond Aircraft DA 40, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2002. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Mountain Aviation LLC, an LLC in Salem, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 27, 2019 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated December 3, 2002.
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
- 40.249
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-M1A+ · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2002
- Transponder code
- A251CA (octal 50450712)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 27, 2019
- Expires
- June 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 11, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · December 3, 2002
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00020519
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mountain Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 196
Salem, VA 24153-0196
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N249DS, 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 Mountain Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 27, 2019, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated December 3, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 40.249 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N249DS 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N249DS. 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