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Swedish startup Heart Aerospace AB announced on Sept. 15 it had abandoned its all-electric, 19-passenger (Part 23) ES- 19 and was now designing a 30-passenger (Part 25), hybrid-electric ES-30 airplane.
Regent revealed on Sept. 15 that its electric seaglider demonstrator completed a series of flights in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island.
Electra, a Falls Church, Virginia-based company developing eSTOL aircraft, announced on Sept. 7 that it completed ground tests of a low-emissions, hybrid eSTOL aircraft propulsion system (shown).
On Aug. 24, Icelandair announced that it recently conducted its inaugural passenger flight of an electric aircraft.
With new contracts, partnerships and flight tests spanning multiple countries and companies, efforts are advancing to develop electric conventional takeoff and landing (eCTOL) and electric short takeoff and landing (eSTOL) aircraft for advanced air mobility (AAM) applications.
NASA’s X-57 Maxwell experimental aircraft is testing a commercial four-seat Italian Tecnam P2006T modified as an electric conventional takeoff and landing (eCTOL) aircraft.
Connect Airlines, a start-up regional US airline, has placed an order with Universal Hydrogen for the conversion of 75 ATR 72-600 Regional Aircraft to hydrogen powertrains.
Electra.aero and Airflow.aero, two leading manufacturers of hybrid eSTOL aircraft, have joined forces.
In a May 19 press release, Swiss firm H55 announced that Pratt & Whitney Canada (P&WC) had selected it to provide the electric propulsion and battery systems for the company’s regional hybrid-electric flight demonstrator program.
Surf Air Mobility, the Los Angeles, California-based electric air travel company, announced on May 18 that it would merge with Southern Airways Corporation and become a publicly traded company.
