SAMAD aerospace unveils plans for first eVTOL aviation ‘innovation village’

SAMAD aero­space has revealed its vision for the first eVTOL avi­a­tion inno­va­tion vil­lage in the world.

The hybrid-elec­tric avi­a­tion com­pa­ny, based at the Cran­field Tech­nol­o­gy Park in Bed­ford­shire, UK, has said it will help con­nect pro­fes­sion­als work­ing in eVTOL tech­nol­o­gy and research.

It also plans to devel­op sim­i­lar avi­a­tion vil­lage hubs across Europe and in coun­tries such as Brazil, Cana­da, Chi­na, India and Malaysia.

Dr. Seyed Mohseni, CEO of SAMAD aero­space, said: “SAMAD aero­space is lead­ing the way in the devel­op­ment of a hybrid elec­tric air­craft fleet. Their inten­tion is to make fly­ing as com­mon prac­tice as dri­ving, with the abil­i­ty to move direct­ly from point-to-point.”

The com­pa­ny also added that edu­ca­tion will be at the core of the avi­a­tion vil­lage, with pilot train­ing, schools and R&D facil­i­ties for region­al uni­ver­si­ties with engi­neer­ing and aero­space fac­ul­ties. 

Com­mer­cial avi­a­tion facil­i­ties will include an air­port, indus­tri­al assem­bly plant and aero­space busi­ness inno­va­tion hub, with SAMAD aero­space plan­ning to have its own man­u­fac­tur­ing facil­i­ties where it will man­u­fac­ture its low emis­sion VTOL air­craft fleet.

Res­i­den­tial and recre­ation­al facil­i­ties include shop­ping malls, hos­pi­tal, schools, food courts and cof­fee shops, bus ter­mi­nals, vil­las in two types and size, flats in sev­en dif­fer­ent sizes, sport cen­tre, game cen­tre, muse­um and cul­tur­al space, green spaces, car park spaces, cin­e­ma, hotel, library and health cen­tre. 

SAMAD aero­space is cur­rent­ly devel­op­ing its hybrid-elec­tric Star­ling Jet air­craft for com­mer­cial oper­a­tion by 2024. It was announced at the Sin­ga­pore Air Show in 2018 and can seat up to 10 pas­sen­ger, trav­el­ling at a cruise speed of 460mph for 1,500 miles.

It is also work­ing on its e‑Starling Jet, which will be ful­ly pow­ered by elec­tric and can reach a top speed of 300mph. Seat­ing up to sev­en pas­sen­gers, it will have a range of 400 miles and will be tar­get­ing com­mer­cial business/leisure and domes­tic trav­el as ear­ly as 2022.

To view a vir­tu­al tour of the avi­a­tion inno­va­tion vil­lage, vis­it https://samadaerospace.co.uk/samad-aviation-village/