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News of July 25, 2008

Diamond Offering Assistance To DA42 Customers

Diamond Aircraft launched a program Thursday designed to help its DA42 aircraft customers manage the transition from the original equipment Thielert Aircraft Engine Centurion engine to an Austro Engine AE 300 powerplant. Existing owners of TAE Centurion engines have complained of lack of support and warranty coverage from Thielert since that company entered insolvency this spring. Diamond is working with Austro Engine and hopes to win European Aviation Safety Agency type certification for the 170-horsepower turbo-diesel engine this fall. Diamond announced a multi-faceted DA42 Customer Assistance Program Thursday that encompasses parallel initiatives: Certifying the Austro Engine in the DA42, including a retrofittable upgrade kit to convert existing customer aircraft to the more powerful 170-horsepower AE 300; and efforts to win Supplemental Type Certificate approval for alternative support and maintenance solutions for the existing TAE engine. 'We are expending significant resources on these extensive programs in our very best effort to protect our existing customers, regardless of the possible outcome of the TAE insolvency,' said Peter Maurer, president of Diamond Aircraft Industries. 'The potential of upgrading existing DA42s - to deliver greatly improved performance, reliability and manufacturer support - will greatly enhance their value and best protect the investment that our customers have made in their aircraft.' Diamond is offering program participants up to a 30 percent 'subsidy' of the cost of the of the optional Austro Engine retrofit when it becomes available; assignment of a priority position for Austro Engine retrofit kits; a 30 percent discount on any TAE-engine specific parts and services that are under development by Diamond when STCs are issued and those parts become available; an immediate 20 percent discount on all DA42 Diamond airframe parts; and, a 12-month extension of the airframe parts warranty. (Aviation Week 7/25/08)

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