Diamond DA50

The Diamond DA50 is a five-seat, single-engine light aircraft of composite construction, designed and built by Diamond Aircraft Industries of Austria. A prototype first flew on 4 April 2007 at Wiener Neustadt East airport and was shown to the public at the AERO Friedrichshafen show later that month, but the project was put on hold in 2009 as the Great Recession set in. Over the following years Diamond proposed several versions with different engines, including a pressurised petrol version and diesel and turboprop variants, before settling on the DA50 RG, which has retractable landing gear and a 220 kW Continental CD-300 diesel engine. That version received EASA certification on 9 September 2020 and FAA certification in July 2023.