Good article in the current AOPA magazine summarizing the status of diesels for GA airplanes. The takeaway (for me, anyway) is that either (1) you'd have to do a lot of flying to ever amortize the conversion with fuel savings, or (2) love your airplane so much you don't care how much money you spend on it - read 'sunk cost.'
Appears to me that diesels in Skymasters will remain in the category of 'an interesting academic discussion' for the forseeable future.
Joe
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