The Da-42s in Flight this week. http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2009/07/15/329682/diamond-da42s-shone-during-rafs-iraq-mission.html The photo appears to be taken at Wiener Neustadt.
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It would appear that the DA-42s had a swift - for a DA-42 - trip back from dusty places via Amman, Akrotiri, Corfu and Wiener Neustadt. Callsigns used were Ascot 3776 (ZA180) and Ascot 3778 (ZA179). All three of the Da-42s recovered into Boscombe Down. I assume that they are still there as they have not been reported in the wild since. perhaps they're having their mode-S boxes fixed as on the day these photos were taken they were showing hex 43C5BA callsign ZA179 (actually ZA179/callsign G-DOSA) but this code is Alphajet ZJ645 hex 43C5B9 callsign G-DOSC (actually ZA180/ callsign G-DOSB) hex 4403F0 callsign G-DOSC (callsign G-DOSC) hex of OE-FOG it's previous ID I guess they borrowed the mode-S boxes from QinetiQ for the flight home.....
Yesterday evening, DA-42s ZA179 and ZA180 flew into Old Sarum from Wiener-Neustadt under Ascot callsigns. Here they are this morning on Old Sarums carefully manicured grass before departing for a formation photo shoot with sister ship G-DOSC (which departed Boscombe Down) and photo ship G-DPEP an Aero AT-3 prior to DA-42 recovery into Boscombe Down.