Diamond Aircraft

In an action meant to address an “unsafe condition” on Diamond twins using these engines, the FAA published an airworthiness directive on July 27, that applies to certain Austro Engine GmbH model E4s and all E4P engines. The directive follows up on reports of “considerable wear of the timing chain on the affected engines,” according […]

The School of Aviation Sciences at Utah Valley University resumed flight operations recently at its base in Provo, Utah—just in time to welcome new aircraft to its mixed Diamond and Piper fleet. The university had used two different airplanes for initial private pilot and instrument rating instruction—the DA20 C1 and the DA40. To streamline operations, […]

On Thursday, June 25, Diamond Aircraft Industries announced the latest update to its single-engine piston airplane line, the DA50 RG—the five-seat version of the DA50 in a retract formulation. Like others in its family, the airplane will be powered by a diesel powerplant, the Continental CD-300 turbocharged, fadec engine, with a max power output of […]

These days some hangar flying in a flight training device doesn’t seem all that unusual, especially to pilots living in cities with local shelter-in-place orders. No matter how realistic a simulator claims to be though, most pilots will tell you they still know the devices are simply pretend airplanes. Trying to take on that realism […]

Blue Line Aviation has broken ground on a $13-million facility at Johnston Regional Airport in North Carolina, expanding its footprint from its Raleigh-area base. The flight training organization has two locations currently, at the Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU) and at Johnston (JNX). Operations at JNX will be suspended during the construction of the new facility, […]

Continental Aerospace last week announced a new partnership with Diamond Aircraft that will equip the single-engine DA50 with a 300 hp, Jet-A fueled CD-300 engine. The CD-300, specifically designed for high performance, luxury piston powered aircraft and certified in December 2017, is the third platform in Continental’s Jet-A fueled piston engine lineup. The engine produces […]

Diamond Aircraft has landed a contract for 60 single- and twin-engine trainers from the SNCA-CAE Authorized Training Centre in Dammam, Saudi Arabia. The announcement was made at the MEBAA 2018 Middle East business aviation show in Dubai, being held this week in the UAE. The school has selected Diamond’s twin DA42-VI and single DA40 NG […]

Diamond Aircraft Industries GmbH in collaboration with Siemens AG has flown a multi-engine hybrid-electric aircraft at Diamond’s headquarters in Wiener Neustadt, Austria, a milestone that the lightplane manufacturer says will help keep the future of flying sustainable. Diamond’s aim is to develop “highly efficient” hybrid drive systems that will contribute to a dramatic reduction in […]

Take Flight Aviation, a flight-training provider based in Montgomery, New York, that operates a fleet of Diamond Aircraft piston singles and twins, has been named by AOPA as Best Flight School in the Nation for 2018. Take Flight Aviation was honored for providing a high level of service to its customers based on responses to […]

Diamond Aircraft’s new DA40NG and DA42-VI, both of which burn jet fuel rather than avgas, have been chosen by Republic Airline as the new fleet training aircraft for the airline’s new Leadership In Flight Training program, according to a Diamond Aircraft news release. Republic ordered 50 DA40s and DA42s (along with Diamond Flight Simulation Devices) […]