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N173RS

Diamond Aircraft DA 40

Valid Electric airplaneTexas

N173RS is a Diamond Aircraft DA 40, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2003. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Shining Ventures LLC, an LLC in Houston, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 11, 2023 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated November 28, 2003.

Diamond Aircraft: eDA40 electric trainer, Austria

Aircraft

Maker
Diamond Aircraft (Austria)
FAA spelling: DIAMOND AIRCRAFT IND INC
Model
DA 40
Serial number
40.336
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-M1A+ · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
2003
Transponder code
A125DA (octal 50222732)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 11, 2023
Expires
February 28, 2030
Last FAA action
February 11, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · November 28, 2003
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00078609

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Shining Ventures LLC
Type
LLC
Address
3260 Locke Ln
Houston, TX 77019-6208

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

2001-03-16Bean Robert E WITTMAN TAILWIND W10 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data