CAE received the last of its seven aircraft order of DA42-VIs from Diamond Aircraft, fulfilling an order signed by the two companies in 2024. “CAE has operated Diamond aircraft in their flight ...

The European Flight Academy, which trains future Lufthansa Group pilots, announced July 5 that it has expanded its fleet of Diamond DA42 twin piston training aircraft. Austria-based Diamond ...

This 2007 DA42 has 950 hours on the airframe and on both Continental CD135 engines and MT composite propellers since new. [Courtesy: Premier Aircraft Sales, Inc.] Each day, the team at Aircraft ...

SHK says a flight-training instructor in Sweden detailed two DA42 spin incidents to the Norwegian investigation upon learning that three people had been in the aircraft that crashed near Larvik ...

Rumours surfaced of engine problems and then, in 2008, Thielert, the maker of the DA42’s diesel engines, went bust. Owners started to grow nervous about overhauls, warranty claims and resale values.

One of the defining features of Diamond's little four-seat DA42 Twin Star is the choice of powerplants, the newly certified Thielert turbo-diesel engine. With ...

With the production-standard DA42 at an air show in Lyon, France and the other DA42 at Neustadt rigged with Lycoming engines for the US market option, I was to test OE-VDA, a diesel-powered prototype.

Diamond's DA42 NG uses a pair of 2.0 liter Austro Engine turbo diesels capable of producing 170 horsepower each. The common-rail injected engines are actually the second diesel power plant used in ...