Opa Locka doesn’t have any spare Hoffmanns in stock. I would think an experimental DA20 wouldn’t lose too much value. Makes getting parts significantly easier. What parts would be easier to get? Owned a DA20 for many years, bought parts for the engine from Lockwood and many other components from va...

Help! My Hoffmann prop on my 20A1-100 has excess play according to the mechanic. Time for overall is 6-10 months and about $8000. MT can get me a field approval and new prop & spinner for $10K, but again, October 2024 at the earliest to get it completed and then shipped from Germany. Anyone hav...

A little late now, but maybe the attempt to use an automotive engine designed to run at 15% power for most of it's life versus 75-90+% power wasn't the best idea. Poo-poo the ancient technology Lycomings all you want (and plenty have here) - but they are overall exceptionally reliable (especially th...

spr wrote: ↑Sat Dec 23, 2023 7:33 pm I believe LIFT does their own maintenance.

Yeah, that must be the issue. Couldn’t be the ultra reliable Austro.

Thank goodness for the fortunate outcome. “An Austo has close to PT-6 reliability and the IO-360 fails every 1100 hours?”. What are the references for those statements? Any engine can fail, and we fly accordingly, but I thought most IO-360’s made it to TBO and beyond with little if any trouble. The...

Did Diamond ever release the cause of the engine failure on the DA40NG that made it back to the airport in NJ, or was it NY? It was in NY - IMC engine failure during training flight with CFI on board who magnificently controlled the ATC-guided descent to a happy outcome on a runway. However, Diamon...

The DA20 can be used for VMC only training towards the IFR rating/currency/etc. , but may not be flown in IMC.

See this thread for more info - viewtopic.php?t=5720

I bought a DA-40 in 2003. The second with a G1000. What was true then is true today. Virtually the same words and conversations from the customers and ... silence from Diamond. This is perhaps why everyone I know says buy EAB versus certificated if possible and never, ever, anything with an integra...

They are the best in the business. For me, 35 years of depending on their quality work. If you could see some of the repairs they do at Delta Tech Ops - you would be amazed.

WOW this is eye opening....especially as we just received the first 2 of 3 DA40NGs, (and a 42 late next year). Both were test flown in Jul then disassembled for shipping in Aug. Any suggestion on what documentation (if any) we need to scrub regarding this issue? Don’t know how you could miss all th...