Hybrid Electric

Ampaire’s Eco Caravan, a nine-seat regional aircraft, made its first flight on Friday, on a fully-integrated hybrid-electric propulsion system.

Monte is a U.K.-based company that says its sole focus is financing sustainable regional aviation technologies so that it can support the aviation industry’s transition to net-zero carbon emissions.

Ampaire and Tamarack Aerospace Group have entered into an MOU to further develop aerodynamic upgrades for Ampaire’s hybrid-electric aircraft.

Company will combine with Southern Airways, go public via a SPAC, and partner with AeroTec and magniX.

Aurora Flight Sciences will use a Saab 340B platform for the initial flight test development.

Virginia-based startup Electra.aero says it has secured a key investment from Lockheed Martin as it seeks to develop a hybrid electric, ultra-short takeoff and landing (eSTOL) aircraft.

Under the guidance of Pipistrel’s Vertical Solutions, a consortium in the European Union have concluded a project designed to advance alternative propulsion and regional air transport.

“From Electric Cri-Cri (20 kW) and E-Fan (60 kW), we have now reached the 600-kW power level on Cassio 1,” said VoltAero via the company’s Twitter account on Monday, as they celebrated the crossing of the English Channel, after launching from Calais-Dunkirk Airport, in France, at 10:46 GMT (6:46 ET) this morning. This is the […]

Aerospace company Electra Aero has begun working with the FAA Center for Emerging Concepts and Innovation (CECI) and the Atlanta Aircraft Certification Office (ACO) to define the certification path for its electric short-takeoff-and-landing (eSTOL) aircraft. The company has hired industry veteran Randy Griffith as its director of certification. Griffith led the certification of the Eclipse […]

Transcend Air has tapped GE Aviation and Kaman Aerospace Group as partners in its development of a high-speed, tilt-wing VTOL aircraft. Kaman Aerospace, a subsidiary of helicopter maker Kaman, will manufacture the Vy 400 aircraft. GE will develop and certify a custom variant of GE’s CT7-8 turboshaft helicopter engine to power it. The Vy 400, […]