Diamond Aircraft Industries Logo — Diamond Aircraft is the only Austrian aircraft manufacturer . The company is located in the Lower Austrian city of Wiener Neustadt . Diamond Aircraft is also operator of the airfield Wiener Neustadt / Ost ( ICAO code : LOAN).The company was founded in 1981 Wolf Hoffmann Hoffmann Flugzeugbau Friesach , Carinthia founded. She produced the first touring motor glider H36 Dimona.
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In 1987 the company moved to Wiener Neustadt and the development of the motor glider HK36 “Super Dimona”. The K stands for the co-constructor Dieter Koehler. After several changes of ownership since 1991, the company is owned by the German-born Christian Dries, who until November 2010 also director of the company. Building on the motor glider airplanes were now increasingly built: the first two-seater DA20 Katana, then the vierplätzige DA40, the DA42 twin-engine, and currently (2008) is a single-Kleinjet in development. By 2005, a total of more than 3,500 aircraft were produced. There are more than 1,200 employees worldwide, including 580 in the production plant in Wiener Neustadt in Austria, 350 in London in the province of Ontario in Canada , more in the representations / maintenance yards Egelsbach ( Germany ) at Gamston Airport in England and since 2006 in the province Shandong in the People’s Republic of China . This makes it the third largest company in the world that specializes in the production of single-engine light aircraft. More