DA20 Series
Space, Speed and Style
Imagine taking your favorite sports car and adding wings.
That's the feeling you get when you strap into the two-seat DA20 and take to the sky. Sporty, sleek and exciting, yet surprisingly affordable, the DA20 offers outstanding performance, with impressive durability and economy for private flying.
5.3 gal/h
130 kts
13,100 ft
525 nm
2 seats
584 lbs
Jeremy WilsonI flew a DA20 for three hours in the San Juans yesterday; beautiful summer evening, sunset over the mountains and the water, picnicking on a grass strip, playing with your little sports car in the sky. What a great plane.
Private Owner
Tech Specs DA20-C1
Highlights Safe. Reliable. Forgiving.
Design Elegant and sportive
The sporty cockpit is one of the most comfortable and intuitive in its class thanks to ergonomically designed seats, available with leather or sheepskin seating surfaces and with 4-point inertia reel safety harnesses as well as a professional instrument panel with top quality equipment and materials throughout.
The DA20 canopy and rear windows offer incredible outward visibility to help you navigate, spot other traffic and above all, enjoy the flight.
Propulsion and Avionics Garmin avionics and engine choices
Whether you are a pilot holding a Night VFR (Night Visual Flight Rules) license or want to obtain it, the DA20 series is the ideal aircraft from first flight through night VFR.
The DA20 is available in two engine variants. Choose between a Bombardier Rotax 912 iS3c Sport with 100 hp - DA20i Katana - and a fuel injected 125 hp Continental IO-240-B32B - DA20-C1 airplane.
The engine installation is designed for durability and easy maintenance with crackproof composite forward and aft baffles, robust stainless-steel exhaust, easy access to filters and regular maintenance items, and quickly removable cowlings.
DA20-C1
The fuel injected 125 hp Continental IO-240-B32B with 2-blade fixed pitch propeller, installed in the DA20-C1, offers excellent climb and cruise performance, even at higher density altitudes. The aircraft is FAA/TCCA utility category certified for Night VFR and popularly used for primary training with the ability to do spin training. The perfect aircraft for private flying.
Relaunched in 2020, it is now equipped with new state-of-the-art Garmin G500TXi avionics.
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DA20i Katana
The DA20i Katana's instrumentation and standard Garmin G500 avionics are designed for safety, a positive learning transfer, reliability and value - perfect for private pilots and flight schools. The DA20i Katana is EASA certified for Night VFR.
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Tech Specs Technical Specifications
| DA20i Katana | DA20 C1 | |
| Engine | (BRP-Powertrain) Rotax 912 iSc3 Sport with 100 hp | 125 hp Continental IO-240-B32B engine |
| Fuel grades | AVGAS 100LL, Mogas, Super EN 228 | AVGAS 100LL |
| DA20i Katana | DA20 C1 | |||
| Max. cruise speed | 226 km/h TAS | 122 kts TAS | 240 km/h TAS | 130 kts TAS |
| Range at 55 % (8,000 ft) | 1,302 km | 703 nm | 973 km | 525 nm |
| Fuel Consumption at 55 % (8,000 ft) | 11.1 l/h | 2.9 US gal/h | 20 l/h | 5.3 US gal/h |
| Max. operating altitude | 4,000 m | 13,100 ft | 4,000 m | 13,100 ft |
| Seats | 2 | 2 | ||
| Useful load | 275 kg | 606 lbs | 265 kg | 584 lbs |
| Max. take off mass | 800 kg | 1,764 lbs | 800 kg | 1,764 lbs |
PistonPower™ - The first hourly cost maintenance program for piston aircraft
PistonPower™ is general aviation’s first and only “Power by the Hour” maintenance program for piston aircraft. The program brings stability and cost predictability to your maintenance budget and peace of mind to your business and personal flying.
Evionica - Training & E-Learning
Just like Diamond Aircraft stands for perfection in manufacturing aircraft, the highest quality and attention to detail, Evionica provides customers with whole new world of aviation computer based training solutions and technologically advanced e-learning solutions. Evionica's Class Rating CBT course for the DA20 C1 provides the next-generation distance learning experience for Diamond pilots.
Gallery Come aboard and fly with us!
Range Map Diamond takes you places!
Conditions: Maximum Take Off Mass, ISA, No fuel reserve.
Click on your preferred location on the map to see the range with auxiliary tank. Distance and time indicated are for guidance only and should not be used for flight planning purposes. Air traffic congestion, wind and other factors are not taken into consideration. Specifications apply to standard equipped aircraft and can change without notice.
Conditions: Maximum Take Off Mass, ISA, No fuel reserve.
Click on your preferred location on the map to see the range with auxiliary tank. Distance and time indicated are for guidance only and should not be used for flight planning purposes. Air traffic congestion, wind and other factors are not taken into consideration. Specifications apply to standard equipped aircraft and can change without notice.