Diamond Aircraft DA 40
N81DS 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 Marathon Leasing INC, a corporation in Elyria, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 5, 2007 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated August 23, 2004.
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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
- 40.406
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2004
- Transponder code
- AB075F (octal 52603537)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 5, 2007
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · August 23, 2004
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00126499
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Marathon Leasing INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 100 Freedom Ct
Elyria, OH 44035-2245
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 N81DS, 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 Marathon Leasing INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 5, 2007, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated August 23, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 40.406 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N81DS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Raven S55A (serial S55A-748, cancelled May 15, 2002). 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]
2 NTSB records under N81DS: Accident on February 28, 1988 at Los Lunas, NM: serious injuries, substantial damage. Accident on January 13, 1985 at Littleton, CO: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Raven S55A · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN88LA081 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Raven S55A · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN85LA078 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