JBrannon - I'm glad you started this thread. I received a DA50 today as a surprise gift and if this thread hadn't been started I wouldn't have known to verify that the engine has the updates. As far as the question in an earlier post asking if anyone has seen one of the non-updated engines come apart - Yes, I have. Last weekend a guy was hovering his plane a few feet off the ground when all of the sudden you heard a loud knocking. As-soon-as he applied throttle to get altitude the motor came apart. The plane is now scrap. He said he had thought about sending the motor in for the updates but hadn't gotten around to it yet. He's a student and not in a position to replace his pride-and-joy. It doesn't matter if there are only a very few where this happens if one of those few is yours. Anyway, thanks again for starting the thread. RCU is for keeping people informed and that's what the thread did; both when there where problems and when the updates were available.

Dan