Diamond DA42 Twin Star

The Diamond DA42 Twin Star is a four-seat, twin-engine light aircraft built by Diamond Aircraft Industries in Austria and Canada. It was the company's first multi-engine design and is a low-wing, T-tailed monoplane with a largely carbon fibre airframe, retractable tricycle landing gear and a Garmin G1000 glass cockpit. It received European certification in April 2004 and American certification in July 2005, and in 2004 it became the first diesel-powered fixed-wing aircraft to cross the North Atlantic non-stop. Early aircraft used Thielert diesel engines; after that engine maker's insolvency, Diamond introduced the DA42 NG with its own Austro Engine AE 300 diesels, certified in 2009. Besides training and touring, the type is widely used for aerial surveillance, in variants such as the DA42 MPP.