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Diamond’s DA50 Flight Design F2, F4

Recall that German-based Flight Design had its own four-place airplane, the C4, in the works until it ran into financial trouble. At Aero, the reorganized company announced a rethink of the CTLS line and a new four-place project called the F4. The latter will be a CS 23-certified aircraft that's essentially a stretched version of the CTLS. Predictably, the powerplant will be Rotax's new 915 iS. Gross weight is set at 2420 pounds with performance in the 150- to 160-knot range. The price target is under $300,000.

Paul Bertorelli
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For at least the past five years, the spring product rollout season has shifted eastward away from Sun ‘n Fun and toward Aero Friedrichshafen. And so it was this year, with two major developments from Diamond and Flight Design.

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Paul Bertorelli

Paul Bertorelli is Aviation Consumer’s Editor at Large. In addition to his valued contributions to Aviation Consumer, his in-depth video productions on sister publication AVweb cover a wide variety of topics that greatly contribute to safety, operation and aircraft ownership. When Paul isn’t writing or filming, he’s out flying his J3 Cub.