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Dufour To Locate Some Work on Aero eVTOL Aircraft Family in Montreal

The Swiss company is recruiting software engineers in Montreal, which is Canada's main aerospace industry hub.
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Hexcel To Supply Composites for Archer’s eVTOL Production Aircraft

Archer and Hexcel sign a letter of intent covering the supply of carbon-fiber material for the four-seat Maker.
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Lilium's Latest Securities and Exchange Commission Filing Seeks To Inspire Patience In Investors

The company has reported that its Lilium Jet eVTOL aircraft is now not expected to enter service until 2025, representing a likely delay of at least 12 months.
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Jaunt Attracts Two New Canadian Private Investors for Its eVTOL Aircraft Plans

The announcement follows the March 10 completion of its merger with advanced air mobility group Airo, of which it is now a wholly owned subsidiary.
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Composite Manufacturers Provide Guidance on Advanced Air Mobility Applications for New Materials

In April, the American Composite Manufacturers Association is holding a series of webinars about how different materials can apply to the design and production of new types of aircraft and the infrastructure that supports them.
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Piasecki Prepares To Step Up Testing Regime for Hydrogen-Powered Helicopter

Piasecki Aircraft's CEO and president, John Piasecki, provided a detailed PA-890 helicopter program update at recent Vertical Flight Society events.
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Aircraft Sales Group Blueberry Agrees to Add Dufour's Aero eVTOL Family to Its Portfolio

Dufour Aerospace and Blueberry Aviation expect their collaboration to result in launch customers for the Aero2 and Aero3 among Blueberry’s operators.
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ZeroAvia Teams with Zev Station To Develop Hydrogen Refueling at California Airports

ZeroAvia and Zev Station are both participating in the Vertical Flight Society's new H-2 Aero Team initiative to advance hydrogen propulsion for aviation.
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Spirit AeroSystems To Work on Electric Aviation Group's Hydrogen Airliner Plans

The aerostructures group is to collaborate in the development of a 90-seat airliner but has yet to specify what its role will be.
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Lilium Pushes Projected eVTOL Aircraft Type Certification into 2025

The company says it will build and start flying the first production-conforming versions of the seven-seat Lilium Jet in 2023 and will then need another 15 to 18 months to earn EASA type certification.
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Australia's Greenbird Consortium Now Includes Local eVTOL Aircraft Developer AMSL

AMSL Aero is working on an all-electric eVTOL aircraft called the Vertiia, which would carry a pilot and five passengers or around 1,100 pounds of freight.
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Hyundai Adds eSTOL Regional Aircraft to its Supernal eVTOL Plans

Expected to fly to a range of 1,000 km, Hyundai’s eSTOL aircraft would enter service on so-called regional air routes connecting cities in South Korea.
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Gold Coast Helicopter Operator Signs Up for Australian Vertiport Network Plan

Sea World Helicopters has joined a partnership led by ground infrastructure group Skyportz to develop commercial eVTOL aircraft operations in Australia.
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Turkish Operator Gozen Will Fly Vertical's VX4 eVTOL in Scheduled Services

Leasing group Avolon says that payments for provisional eVTOL orders will be finalized only after operating plans have been confirmed with prospective customers.
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UK's Aerospace Technology Institute to Offer Up to £1 Billion In New Green Aviation Funding

The UK’s Aerospace Technology Institute is offering an additional £685 million in funding for the development of “green” aviation technology over the next three years.
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EHang Expects EH216 Certification in Mid-2022 and Launch of World's First eVTOL Revenue Flights

The Chinese company told investors to expect an uptick in revenues during the second half of this year from sightseeing and firefighting operations.
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Lilium Gets Clearance To Resume eVTOL Flight Testing in Spain

The company had to suspend flight testing for just over two years after losing a technology demonstrator to a ground fire in February 2020.
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HyPoint Extends Hydrogen Flight Range with New Ultralight Fuel Tanks

NASA award-winning hydrogen fuel cell developer HyPoint has partnered with hydrogen tank maker Gloyer-Taylor Laboratories to employ a new graphite fiber tank that offer 10 times more capacity than do existing fuel tanks.
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FedEx To Test Autonomous Drone Cargo Delivery with Elroy Air

FedEx and Elroy Air plan to launch test flights of the Chaparral autonomous air cargo system in early 2023.
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Eve Anticipates Increased Capital from 2Q 2022 Merger and Wall Street Flotation

New backers for the eVTOL aircraft developer's public investment in private equity have brought around $42 million in additional funds to a deal that will see it merge with Zanite Acquisition.
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