NZ Billionaire Behind Eviation Pitching For Aircraft Sales From Air New Zealand
The New Zealand billionaire behind electric aviation pioneer companies Eviation and MagniX is lobbying Air New Zealand, which is in the market to buy lower emission aircraft. A report in New Zealand news outlet Stuff, without citing sources, says New…
Australia’s Stralis Aircraft Using Retrofit Program To Aid Clean-Sheet Aircraft Design
Edited with amendments to titles at previous companies in the third paragraph. Brisbane-based Stralis Aircraft aims to develop an all-new aircraft, powered by hydrogen fuel-cell, but is first developing a re-reengining program for the Beechcraft 1900D that replaces the aircraft’s…
Australia’s Regional Express Partners With Dovetail Electric Aviation For Turbine To Electric Powerplant Conversion
Regional Express (Rex) is forming a strategic partnership with Dovetail Electric Aviation (Dovetail) for turbine to electric powerplant conversions by 2026. Rex in a statement says the partnership will operate under the Dovetail brand to develop and certify the retrofitting of electric engines onto…
Germany’s Aerospace Agency Developing Fuel Cell To Power Aircraft As Large As A Dornier 328
The German Aerospace Centre (DLR) will be developing a fuel-cell that can power a short-range regional aircraft that seats at least 40 passengers. The German ministry of transport says in a DLR statement it has provided 26 million euros (US$32…
MagniX Partners Sydney Seaplanes to Develop Electric Cessna Caravan
Electric aircraft motor designer MagniX is partnering with Sydney Seaplanes and electric aircraft developer Dante Aeronautical to create electric-powered Cessna Caravans. US-based MagniX says the supplemental type certificate (STC) programme aims to create a Cessna Caravan all-electric conversion that will…
MagniX Spear-heading Technological Shift in Aviation
MagniX expects to complete certification of its electric-powered de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver and Cessna Grand Caravan by early-2022, with certification of a larger 2MW electric motor for Universal Hydrogen’s 40-seat aircraft to be completed shortly after that. Roei Ganzarski,…
