Diamond Aircraft DA 40
N871DS is a Diamond Aircraft DA 40, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2007. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Desota LLC, an LLC in Marion, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 8, 2009 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated May 31, 2007.
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
- 40.801
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-M1A+ · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2007
- Transponder code
- ABFA69 (octal 52775151)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 8, 2009
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · May 31, 2007
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00361389
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Desota LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 2700 Turnberry Dr
Marion, IL 62959-5227
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N871DS, 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 Desota LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 8, 2009, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated May 31, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 40.801 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N871DS 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N871DS. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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