It started life as a Norton motorcycle engine. When Norton went belly up
for unrelated reasons the rights to make the engine for manned aircraft
were sold to Midwest Engines. About 4 or 5 years ago Diamond bought

Midwest

and moved the company to Germany. Than recently to the Diamond home base

in

Wiener Neustat Austria. They will be stock equipment for Katanas.

Mecanair/Mistral is a Mazda turbo based engine.

Paul Lamar

Just for the record:

the place is called/written:

WIENER NEUSTADT

Thomas J.

 
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