ZeroAvia Welcomes Dornier 228
ZeroAvia welcomed its test bed aircraft in September 2021 and is part of Project HyFlyer, a key element of their wider vision hydrogen-electric engines in the majority of the worlds aircraft.ZeroAvia welcomed its 19-seat test bed aircraft at Cotswold Airport in September 2021, ahead of work to convert the airframe to hydrogen-electric propulsion. Here, Head of Europe Sergey Kiselev describes the importance of this moment and plans for commercialisation of the 19-seat powertrain by 2024. The 19-seat R&D programme at Cotswold Airport is part of Project HyFlyer (supported by the UK Government through the ATI programme), and a key element of ZeroAvia’s wider vision – hydrogen-electric engines in the majority of the world’s aircraft.
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Today, we are anticipating the arrival of our new aircraft. So this is the 19-seat aircraft, which we have been waiting for quite a while, and it's arriving today to its home. This is the largest aircraft that ZeroAvia owned, and this will be our test bed. Yeah, the competition is there.
They have three different prototypes introduced last year. The first of them will be introduced to the commercial operations in 2035. This is not ambitious enough for us. So we are trying to fly at the end of this year, the 19-seat aircraft already, certify the powertrain for the 19-seat aircraft in 2024, and do the same thing for the 50-plus seater in 2026.
So this is five years from now, not 15 years from now. We need to leverage what already exists. And today, there are 10,000-plus aircraft flying in the 10 to 19-seat category. So why don't we start working with them?
And this is exactly what we are going to do when we certify our powertrain. This is Dornier 228. It will be our test bed for our future R&D development. We already finished the design of the powertrain.
So we have done the homework, the design. We even manufactured some of the parts. So when the aircraft will be here, we will be able to start already work on the aircraft. We are not reinventing the wheel, but we're reinventing the engine.
And our team is ready.
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