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N181DS

Diamond Aircraft DA 40

Valid Electric airplaneCalifornia

N181DS 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 an individual in La Jolla, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 4, 2008 and expires on July 31, 2029. 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
Serial number
40.403
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
2004
Transponder code
A144BF (octal 50242277)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 4, 2008
Expires
July 31, 2029
Last FAA action
August 18, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · August 13, 2004
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00125219

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Buckingham Michael J
Type
Individual
Address
7956 Caminito Del Cid
La Jolla, CA 92037-3405

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.

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