Diamond DA40 Diamond Star

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Low wing single piston light aircraft. Includes the variants DA40NG, DA40XLT and the electric eDA40.

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Lift type

Fixed wing

Assembly

Factory-built

Control

Piloted

Engine type

Piston, Diesel, Electric

Application

Touring

Final assembly

Wiener Neustadt/Ost ·

Design & construction

The aircraft as engineered: what it is built from, the systems it flies with, and its configuration — each box a theme.

Airframe & structure

Primary structure

Composite

Wing

Composite

Ice protection

None

Pressurisation

Unpressurised

Systems & avionics

Flight controls

Mechanical

Autopilot

3-axis

Avionics architecture

Integrated glass suite

Configuration & certification

Wing position

Low

Planform

Straight

Tail

T-tail

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Certification

Part 23

Minimum crew

Notable technologies — each tag names a technology on our research record for this aircraft, with its fitting status: Primary, Standard, Option or Planned.

Synthetic vision Option

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Type variants

Variant	Launch / first flight	Notes
Diamond DA40 Diamond Star	1997 / 1997	Production: 13 (2026) GAMA: Diamond Aircraft DA40 (All). Baseline variant.
Diamond DA40NG	2008 / 2010	Next Generation variant, includes DA40NG Club Star and DA40NG Tundra Star (unveiled 2011).
Shandong Bin Ao Aircraft Industries Co. Ltd. DA40 TDI	2008 / 2008	Chinese made variants.
Diamond DA40XLT	2013 / 2013	Variant with upgraded interior.
Diamond eDA40	2021 / 2023	All-electric variant.

Airframer

Diamond Aircraft Industries GmbH	News
Diamond Aircraft Industries Inc.	News
Shandong Bin Ao Aircraft Industries Co. Ltd.	News

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