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N197DS

Diamond Aircraft DA 40

Valid Electric airplaneKentucky

N197DS 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 Hanover LLC, an LLC in London, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 29, 2020 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated November 18, 2005.

Diamond Aircraft: eDA40 electric trainer, Austria

Aircraft

Maker
Diamond Aircraft (Austria)
FAA spelling: DIAMOND AIRCRAFT IND INC
Model
DA 40
Serial number
40.586
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-M1A+ · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
2005
Transponder code
A18288 (octal 50301210)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 29, 2020
Expires
December 31, 2027
Last FAA action
April 7, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · November 18, 2005
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00216579

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Hanover LLC
Type
LLC
Address
1000 E 4Th St
London, KY 40741-2524

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