result of the firm failed to come up with the agreed money. Diamond continued operations, using funding from its own shareholders. In late February 2013, having not located further operational funding, the company laid off the majority of its Canadian staff and ceased work on the D-Jet program, indicating that the company needed to reorganize. Staff working on filling aircraft orders and parts support were retained. By mid-2014, some staff had returned to work. In March 2012, company CEO Christian Dries indicated that the market focus of the company had been changed by the recession of 2008-10 and that the company was deriving two-thirds of its revenue from military and government contracts, primarily for manned and unmanned surveillance versions of its DA42. In April 2012, the company announced the Diamond Hero, an autonomous operation helicopter unmanned aerial vehicle. On 13 December 2016 Diamond sold a 60% share of its Diamond Aircraft Canada operation to the Wanfeng Aviation, part of Chinese conglomerate Wanfeng Auto Holding Group. Diamond Aircraft characterized the sale as a "strategic reinvestment" and indicated that the move would allow a re-assessment of the suspended D-Jet program. At the April 2017 AERO Friedrichshafen show, along with diesel variants of the DA50, the composite Diamond DART 280 light-single piston-engined helicopter concept was launched. It will compete with the Robinson R44 with a MTOW and a 280shp (208 kW) four-stroke jet-fuel engine. A first flight was scheduled for the autumn of 2018, with certification forecast for a year later but this did not come to pass. In December 2017, Wanfeng Aviation purchased the remainder of the shares in Diamond. At the December 2018 MEBAA, the Saudi Arabian National Company of Aviation-CAE Inc. Training Centre in Dammam ordered 60 single-engine DA40 NG and twin-engine DA42-VI, to be delivered over five years, with Garmin G1000 NXi glass panels and diesel engines. Research Diamond is testing automatic landing procedures, and is developing a hybrid electric quad-tiltrotor prototype using technology tested in their E-Star. Products Aircraft Diamond DA20 Diamond DV20 Diamond DA36 E-Star Diamond DA40 Star Diamond DA42 TwinStar Diamond DA50 Diamond DA52 Diamond DA62 Diamond HK36 Dimona Diamond Dart 450 Diamond D-Jet Diamond Hero - UAV Simulators D-SIM-20 D-SIM-40 D-SIM-42 D-SIM-D-JET References External links Diamond Aircraft Industries - Austria Diamond Aircraft Industries - North America Aircraft manufacturers of Austria Aircraft manufacturers of Canada Companies established in 1981 Austrian brands