Diamond Aircraft DA 40
N524DS is a Diamond Aircraft DA 40, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Mountain Aviation LLC, an LLC in Salem, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 3, 2019 and expires on October 31, 2029. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
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
- 40.260
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A69826 (octal 51514046)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 3, 2019
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00027739
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mountain Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 196
Salem, VA 24153-0196
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.
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The public federal record on N524DS, 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 October 3, 2019, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 40.260 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N524DS 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 N524DS: Accident on July 21, 2023 at Roanoke, VA: 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: Diamond Aircraft Ind INC DA 40 · operated under 091
The student pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during the landing, and the flight instructor’s inadequate remedial action.
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