Aircraft
Diamond Delivers Hungary’s First DA62 MPP Aircraft
Hungary is “entering a new era of aerial reconnaissance”
Hungarian Diamond DA62 MPP
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A Hungarian defense contractor has accepted the country’s first delivery of a Diamond DA62 Multi-Purpose Platform (MPP), a sensor-packed variant of the DA62 diesel-engine twin designed for aerial reconnaissance. Diamond Aircraft Industries, the aircraft’s Austria-based, Chinese-owned manufacturer, successfully delivered the aircraft to HM Zrínyi, a Hungarian state-owned company operating under the nation’s defense ministry. 

Flight tracking data shows that the DA62 MPP, registered HA-HML, departed from Diamond’s production facility at Wiener Neustadt East Airport (LOAN) in Austria on March 12 and arrived at Hungary’s Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport (LHBP), where senior representatives of the Hungarian Defense Forces held a formal handover ceremony on March 17.