DIAMOND DA40 SERIES
African Pilot|March 2024
The DA40 NG comes standard with a choice of stylish and hard-wearing interior materials. For luxurious comfort and style, available features include premium leather interiors in several designs and colours, adjustable pilot seatbacks and lumbar support, electrically adjustable rudder pedals, electric air conditioning and much more.
DIAMOND DA40 SERIES

The DA40 fully integrated G1000 NXi flight deck, incorporating the latest features with optional ultra-precise GFC700 Automatic Flight Control System, offers superior situational awareness, convenience and safety. Available equipment provides Traffic Advisories, Synthetic Vision Technology, Satellite WX and entertainment and more. The DA40 offers the ultimate in handling, stability and control, ease of operation plus structural and system redundancies, all coupled with a high degree of crashworthiness.

Diamond's industry-leading safety record is the result of its commitment to protecting you and your passengers with a long list of active and passive safety features. Active safety features help to avoid accidents in the first place, the first and most important line of defence. Passive safety features are designed to minimise the probability and degree of injury, just in case the unexpected happens.

DA40 engines are the 168 hp turbocharged AE300 jet fuel engine (DA40 NG version) or a Lycoming 10360M1A AVGAS engine (DA40 XLT version). The Lycoming 10360 delivers smooth and refined performance, has amassed millions of flight hours in high utilisation operations worldwide, is familiar to A&P's everywhere and consistently reaches TBO and beyond. The three blade MT hydraulic constant speed propeller features advanced blade geometry for efficient performance, low vibration and noise. It is automatically controlled by the engine's digital engine control through a conventional hydraulic governor.

Diamond DA42

The latest DA42-VI version is easy to fly and burns fuel like a single, but with the added safety of a second engine. The impressive cross-country performance will please you! No wonder it is the bestselling piston twin, by far. Max. speed (16,000 ft, MCP, 1,760 kg TOW) of the aircraft is 197 knots and a fuel burn of 10.4. gph (39.4 litres/h) for both engines at 60%.

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