Diamond Aircraft DA 40
N840AB is a Diamond Aircraft DA 40, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2005. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Diamond Group Holdings LLC, an LLC in Greenville, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 28, 2015 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated February 23, 2005.
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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
- 40.478
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- AB7FDB (octal 52677733)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 28, 2015
- Expires
- May 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 14, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · February 23, 2005
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00159779
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Diamond Group Holdings LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 873
Greenville, NC 27835-0873
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 N840AB, 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 Group Holdings LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 28, 2015, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated February 23, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 40.478 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N840AB was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Airbus Industrie A310-324 (serial 682, cancelled August 14, 2001). 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 N840AB: Accident on March 20, 2015 at Fuquay-Varina, NC: 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 DA40 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain control of the airplane during the landing roll, which resulted in a runway overrun.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA15CA072 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