Great Lakes Diamond Aircraft Sales is the Diamond Regional Distribution Center for the Great Lakes region, serving Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio. We are the national distributor for the Diamond Xtreme Motor-Glider. Through our network of affiliated new aircraft dealers, Great Lakes Diamond Aircraft Sales is your exclusive source for new Diamond aircraft in the Great Lakes Region.
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Diamond flew the new DA42 Twinstar with the Lycoming power plants to AOPA Expo in San Jose, CA. The aircraft looks great - both the engine nacelles and the new control quadrant show great fit and finish.
As for performance, the numbers speak for themselves:
Click here for the new performance statistics.
Aircraft
Maximum Cruise
Rate of Climb (SL)
DA42-NG
185 KTAS
1150 fpm
DA42-L360
180+ KTAS
2000 fpm
GLDAS is now accepting orders for the DA42 - L360, and deliveries are scheduled to begin by the middle of the first quarter, 2009.
Contact us for ordering and pricing information, and stay tuned for a more verbose DA42 update, which will be sent by early December to our DA42 customers. If you wish to be added to our DA42 mailing list, please indicate so on the contact us page of this website.
Diamond Aircraft and Eastern Aviation Insurance have announced the launch of the Diamond Aviation Insurance Program for Diamond Flight Centers and individual Diamond Aircraft owners. The program, underwritten exclusively by AXA Insurance through Britt / Paulk Aviation Underwriters, offers lower, preferential insurance rates – and some terms not available in the general market – to make owning and operating a Diamond airplane even more attractive.
For Diamond Flight Centers, the program leverages the high quality of these audited, selected flight schools to improve upon already-attractive rates available for all Diamond Aircraft. The program also offers terms and a scope of coverage not typically available to schools elsewhere:
Three years ago, Diamond suspended the Xtreme motor-glider production because of fleet expansion and remodeling of the factory floor in Austria. The motor-gliders are now back in production, and GLDAS has 5 on order, with the first delivery in late October.
Price starts at e124,970 for the 100HP normally aspirated model and e134,270 for the 115HP turbocharged model. A well-equipped unit will run $175,000 to $200,000.
Considering Sport Pilot? Consider the Motor-Glider Instead
Glider rules are more lenient than Sport Pilot rules, and no medical is required for either. The HK36 cruises at 118 - 120 knots on 4 GPH, and the aircraft are fun to fly power-on or power-off. The new model motor-glider has a premium interior very similar to the current-model DA20 Eclipse. Product details are listed in our Products page
Great Lakes Diamond Aircraft Sales has nationwide distribution privileges for the HK36 in the US, so wherever you live, please contact Andy James for ordering and inventory details.
Dealers Wanted: We are looking for motor-glider dealers in parts of the US, who are rated and equipped with a demonstrator. Contact Andy for details.
The deadline to take advantage of up to $300,000 in depreciation opportunities on a new Diamond DA40 XLS is September 30. To help our customers take advantage of this opportunity, Great Lakes Diamond Aircraft Sales and the other Diamond Regional Distributors are offering a $3,000 cash back incentive to pay for the tax and legal services needed to take advantage of this tax savings opportunity. Customers not eligible for the tax savings may apply for a fuel credit in the same amount - sufficient for 60 hours or 10,000 miles of flying.
To qualify for these incentives, customers need to order and take delivery of a DA40 XLS aircraft between August 20,2008 and September 30, 2008..jpg)
The 2008 economic stimulus act provides both 50% bonus depreciation on new aircraft purchases, and an expanded maximum $250,000 expensing election for taxpayers who invest less than $1,050,000 in new or capital assets.*
For more information, contact your GLDAS sales representative at 1-800-962-9437 or via email at sales@greatlakesdiamond.com
*Based on general application of provisions of the Recovery Rebates and Economic Stimulus for the American People Act 2008. Application to specific curcumstances may vary. Consult your tax adviser for more information.
Diamond Aircraft today announced the introduction of major avionics upgrades available to owners of G1000- equipped Diamond DA40s. Upgrades include electronic charts, WAAS capability, as well as Garmin’s latest safety-enhancing functionality, Garmin Synthetic Vision Technology.
“At Diamond, we focus on safety, and on maintaining resale value of our aircraft for owners. We are excited that working with Garmin, we are yet again able to provide access to the latest avionics to our installed base, without making obsolete their investment,” explained Heike Larson, VP of Sales and Marketing at Diamond. “We are pleased that not only were we the first to offer Garmin’s SVT certified on a new aircraft, but that we are also the first to make this major safety-enhancing technology available to our DA40 installed base.”
In addition to a software-only upgrade, three complete upgrade packages are available: Garmin charts, WAAS basic or WAAS with coupled VNAV capability (for GFC700 equipped aircraft only.) Two add-on options – SVT and Chartview – can be added to each of the three upgrade packages. Owners who already have Charts or WAAS need not buy a full upgrade package, but instead can add SVT and ChartView through a special add-on kit.
Diamond customers with a G1000-equipped DA40 will receive a detailed letter explaining upgrade functionality, process and pricing over the next week. Kits will be available to ship by June 1st.