Icelandic flight training organization Keilir Aviation Academy has purchased a brand new jet-fuel Austro Engine AE300-powered DA40 Tundra Star – bringing the total number of training aircraft at the flight school to ten, consisting entirely of Diamond Aircraft aircraft.
Stian Skovro and Alejandro Evangelista, flight instructors at Keilir Aviation Academy, received the new DA40 Tundra Star at Diamond Aircraft headquarters in Austria and ferried it to Keilir’s base in Iceland in September 6.
Founded in 2008, Keilir operates five single-engine two-seater DA20, four single-engine four-seater DA40 and one twin-engine four-seater DA42 as well as . Based at Keflavik International Airport, currently 100 pilot students are enrolled in private and professional pilot programs at Keilir Aviation Academy.