Diamond Aircraft DA 40
N451DS is a Diamond Aircraft DA 40, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2012. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Utah State University, a government body in Logan, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 3, 2023 and expires on December 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated February 1, 2012.
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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
- 40.1136
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-M1A+ · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2012
- Transponder code
- A5762F (octal 51273057)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 3, 2023
- Expires
- December 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- December 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · February 1, 2012
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01089032
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Utah State University
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 2500 N 900 W Box 4
Logan, UT 84321
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N451DS, 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 Utah State University, a government body, certificate issued December 3, 2023, expires December 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated February 1, 2012, consistent with the 2012 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 40.1136 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N451DS 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 N451DS: Accident on October 24, 1990 at Compton, 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: Mcdonnell Douglas 369E · operated under 091
INADEQUATE VISUAL LOOKOUT BY THE PILOTS OF BOTH AIRCRAFT, WHICH RESULTED IN A FAILURE OF EACH TO SEE-AND-AVOID CONFLICTING TRAFFIC. FACTORS RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE: DARKNESS, FAILURE OF THE PILOT OF AIR 28 (N48HR) TO USE HIS TRANSPONDER NEAR THE TCA, AND THE PILOT OF AIR 21 DIVERTED TOO MUCH OF HIS ATTENTION TO A MAP.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX91GA016 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data