Diamond Aircraft DA 40
N5WU is a Diamond Aircraft DA 40, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2004. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Diamond West LLC, an LLC in Walnut Creek, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 14, 2005 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated August 13, 2004.
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
- 40.400
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2004
- Transponder code
- A63745 (octal 51433505)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 14, 2005
- Expires
- May 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · August 13, 2004
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00125099
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Diamond West LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 116 Genoa Ct
Walnut Creek, CA 94598-3611
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 N5WU, 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 Diamond West LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 14, 2005, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated August 13, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 40.400 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5WU was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech C90 (serial LJ635, cancelled September 1, 1998). 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 N5WU: Accident on February 16, 1998 at Newton, WV: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). 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: Beech C-90 · operated under 091
The pilot inadequate management of the fuel system which resulted in fuel starvation to both engines. Factors in the accident were the pilot's concern about maintenance being completed prior to executing a scheduled flight later in the day, and operating the airplane with known deficiencies.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for IAD98FA027 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
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