Just beware, usually when a manufacture gives you a target date such as april. I usually tack on 2 months so a more realistic timeframe may be June. Look at the DA50 shipping in october, no wait Late november, Now they are saying hopefully by the end of december I will have mine and I am #50 of a backorder list of what I understand to be almost 200. I would say you are better off getting in line fo a Da50 in hopes to have one for spring. It sounds like this is still on the drawing board for BME as they could only give you a target weight that they are hoping to achieve. I t does not sound llike they even have a test model buile yet. Even if they did I would say they would need at least 3-4 months of testing alone before they could even consider production. All this taken into consideration I bet it will not be until next fall the earliest that this hits the market.