Arnaud Coville becomes Volocopter’s new Chief Technical Officer

Dr. Arnaud Cov­ille is Volo­copter’s new Chief Tech­ni­cal Offi­cer, fol­low­ing Jan-Hen­drik Boe­lens’ deci­sion to leave the com­pa­ny.

With near­ly three decades’ expe­ri­ence in the avi­a­tion indus­try, Cov­ille is an engi­neer with a PhD in auto­mat­ic con­trol and robot­ics. He ini­tial­ly joined the Ger­man air taxi start-up in May, as Head of VoloC­i­ty Devel­op­ment.

Before join­ing Volo­copter, Cov­ille has been active­ly involved in devel­op­ing air­craft from Heli­copters (H135), region­al jets like the CRJ700 and 728 to large air­craft like the A350 and A380, for com­pa­nies includ­ing Air­bus Heli­copter, Diehl Avionik, Fairchild Dornier and Safran.

He said: “Elec­tri­cal­ly pow­ered air taxis will change avi­a­tion as we know it. Togeth­er with the tal­ent­ed team of experts here at Volo­copter, we will bring the very first air taxi for safe urban trav­el to the mar­ket!”

Boe­lens leaves the com­pa­ny upon his own wish­es, and will con­tin­ue con­sult­ing until the end of the year.

In a LinkedIn post, he said: “The past years at Volo­copter have been a great time. I’ve been pre­sent­ed with the most chal­leng­ing prob­lems of my career, as well as the most reward­ing expe­ri­ences. Above all, it has been an hon­our to work with so many great peo­ple! We achieved great mile­stones togeth­er: from the first pub­lic flights in Dubai, up to the DOA approval and the devel­op­ment of the VoloC­i­ty.”

Flo­ri­an Reuter, CEO of Volo­copter, added: “Jan-Hen­drik has done tremen­dous work for Volo­copter. For the past three years, he has led the VoloC­i­ty devel­op­ment and helped us reach defin­ing mile­stones, includ­ing con­duct­ing sev­er­al pub­lic flights and receiv­ing Design Organ­i­sa­tion Approval by EASA.

“It was under his lead­er­ship we brought our prod­uct this far, grew an excep­tion­al team and helped set the com­pa­ny up for suc­cess. Now we look for­ward to build upon this lega­cy and con­tin­ue our jour­ney with Arnaud Cov­ille.”