...our selections for ANN's Plane of The Year:
The Diamond
DA42-L360
It truly is difficult to commit to naming
anything the best, overall, in an industry (embattled as it is)
that still manages to raise the bar, year after year. This year was
the most difficult on record... with birds like the SR22 G3 Turbo
FIKI, the Piper Matrix, Cessna's near legendary Turbo 206 (one of
my personal favs), HBC's rugged Baron G-58, and a number of other
notables, the crop of 2009 GA birds was tough to whittle down to
just one plane...