Press Release

Issued by Diamond Aircraft Industries.

July 13, 2023

Diamond Aircraft has announced the successful delivery of one DA62 MPP (Multi-Purpose Platform) Survey Star to the Centre for GIS (CGIS), a part of the Ministry of Municipality in the State of Qatar.

Diamond Aircraft Industries teamed up with Khatib & Alami, a multidisciplinary design consultancy, in a tender from the State of Qatar in 2021 for the delivery of one special mission aircraft and successfully won the bid. The aircraft has been handed over to CGIS, which is the official geospatial agency in the State of Qatar under the Ministry of Municipality.

Diamond Aircraft showed once more its qualities with an on time delivery and a design, production and delivery time within 12 months after signature of the contract. The aircraft comes with a state-of-the-art mission equipment suite from Riegl and Vexcel, which includes one Riegl laser scanner 780II-S in combination with one Vexcel Osprey 4.1 large format camera as well as a changeable option of the Vexcel Osprey camera with a Riegl 880-GII bathymetric sensor. All systems have been integrated and civil certified by Diamond Aircraft in Austria.

“It’s an honour for me to welcome another MPP customer from Qatar to the Diamond Aircraft special mission aircraft family. With a brand-new DA62 MPP, CGIS is now capable of collecting all the required data with its own asset. The DA62 MPP has proved its value already to customers in Europe and Asia, therefore we are very proud to finally have the first DA62 MPP Survey Star in the Middle East, with Qatar as a forerunner for modern aerial mapping solutions,” said Benjamin Schuhmann, sales manager for Asia Pacific and Middle East of Diamond Aircraft Austria's special mission aircraft division.