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Diamond 42

35 for sale, 16 with a US-dollar asking price. Asking prices, not sales.

What does a Diamond 42 ask?

$806,000 is the median of 16 US-dollar asking prices; the middle half ask $649,675–$1,136,673.

35 for sale now. Asking prices, not sales.

How far does a Diamond 42 fly?

Across its 3 catalog variants, book ranges run 1,030–1,030 nm; the DA 42 flies furthest, about 6 h 08 min at 168 kt.

Still air, no reserves; catalog confidence low.

What does a Diamond 42 cost to keep?

It depends on how you fly it and where you keep it, so Sprinkle doesn’t give one figure. Work it out on your own numbers.

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Asking price by year built

Each dot is one aircraft's asking price; the line is each year's median, the band its low–high. 2006–2008: 13 for sale, 7 priced.

2006–2008$400k$600k$800k$1M$1.2M$1.4M20062012201820242007: $400,0002007: $649,9002007: $675,0002007: $639,0002007: $649,9002027: $1,330,9402027: $1,330,9402021: $1,249,0002019: $934,5002011: $752,0002008: $642,8702020: $1,099,2312022: $860,0002006: $649,0002018: $937,5002025: $1,261,750
The figures by year
YearFor salePricedMedian askLow–high
200621—$649,000–$649,000
200765$649,900$400,000–$675,000
200851—$642,870–$642,870
201121—$752,000–$752,000
201210——
201720——
201821—$937,500–$937,500
201921—$934,500–$934,500
202011—$1,099,231–$1,099,231
202111—$1,249,000–$1,249,000
202211—$860,000–$860,000
202320——
202521—$1,261,750–$1,261,750
202640——
202722—$1,330,940–$1,330,940

Medians from 5 priced aircraft up. Asks outside 0.6–1.6× their year's median are left out.

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Range by variant

Book ranges from the catalog: still air, full fuel, no reserves, at the confidence shown. Plan with your own numbers.

  • DA 42
    1,030 nm · 168 kt cruise · low confidence
  • DA 42 NG
    1,030 nm · 185 kt cruise · low confidence
  • DA-42-M-NG
    1,030 nm · 168 kt cruise · medium confidence

The Diamond 42 in brief

35 Diamond 42 listings are for sale across the sites Sprinkle reads as of Nov 12, 2026, built 2006–2027.

The middle half were built 2008–2023.

How the Diamond 42 performs

By the catalog, the fastest variant cruises at 185 knots.

The longest book range across its variants is 1,030 nautical miles: still air, no reserves.

It seats up to 7 passengers.

Buying a Diamond 42

The middle half of US-dollar asks run $649,675–$1,136,673, around a median of $806,000, from 16 priced listings. Asking prices, not sales.

The middle half of those that publish airframe time show 564–2,331 hours, from 24 listings.

Before an offer, check

  • A pre-buy inspection by a mechanic who knows the type, chosen by you, not the seller.
  • Complete logbooks for the airframe, engines and propellers, with any gaps explained.
  • Damage history and any repairs, against the logbooks and the registry record.
  • Engine time against the overhaul interval, and the shop that did the last overhaul.
  • Airworthiness directives and service bulletins: which apply, and how each was closed.

Figures from the listings Sprinkle reads, read Nov 12, 2026. A market read from asking prices, not an appraisal.

About the Diamond 42

Manufacturer
Diamond, Austria
Category
Piston airplane
Variants in the catalog
3: DA 42, DA 42 NG, DA-42-M-NG
Passengers, at most
7
1,030 nm
Cruise speed, fastest
185 kt
20,000 ft
2,300 kg (5,071 lb)
FAA

From Sprinkle's aircraft catalog. Figures are the highest across the model's variants.

The Diamond 42 fleet

Registered fleet
1,063
Median age
17 years
Registration changes, past 12 months
31
Most built in the
2000s

From the national aircraft registers Sprinkle reads. Read Nov 12, 2026.

Diamond 42 manuals and documents

The 16 most useful of 58 documents in Sprinkle’s library for this model. PDFs open from Sprinkle’s own files.

What one would cost to fly

Put in your own figures; the totals update as you type.

Flying
Overhaul cost over hours to overhaul
Fixed
Databases, subscriptions, cleaning
Buying
The median of 16 US-dollar asking prices for this model: replace it with your offer.
Borrowed: $644,800
A year at these figures
$95,329
A month
$7,944
A flight hour, all in
$953
Flying (fuel and reserve)
$10,300
Fixed
$13,300
Loan
$71,729

Fields marked Typical hold a rule-of-thumb figure for a piston airplane: an assumption, not Sprinkle's data. Replace them with your own.

Not a quote: Sprinkle doesn't hold insurance, hangar or maintenance costs. Asking prices, not sales.

From the listings Sprinkle reads for this model. Read Nov 12, 2026.