New DA42M to Serve as Optionally Piloted Aircraft (OPA)
Arrives at Manassas Corporate Headquarters
The DA42M is a 4-place, twin-engine general aviation aircraft produced by Diamond Aircraft in Austria. The aircraft
that will become the prototype for Aurora’s OPA was originally used by Diamond as a prototype for the
DA42 Multi-Purpose Platform (MPP) development program. Over the past several months, the aircraft has been
upgraded with Austro E300 heavy fuel engines.
Aurora’s DA42M-OPA, named “Centaur”, adds an extensive suite of propriety electronics and software that retains
all of the manned mission capability while also enabling the capability to conduct missions with no pilot onboard.
This “optionally piloted” configuration is unique to the Aurora version of the DA42M.
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