Eve Air Mobility and Falko team up to develop global network of eVTOL operators, includes potential order for 200 aircraft

Eve Urban Air Mobil­i­ty has announced a Let­ter of Intent agree­ment with Falko Region­al Air­craft, which con­tem­plates a poten­tial order for 200 eVTOL air­craft and com­mer­cial part­ner­ship to devel­op a glob­al net­work of eVTOL oper­a­tors in sup­port of urban air mobil­i­ty mis­sions.

The part­ner­ship between Eve and Falko will begin by estab­lish­ing a work­ing group to col­lab­o­rate with Falko’s exist­ing oper­a­tors to devel­op ini­tial route net­works where Eve’s air­craft can be deployed in ear­ly adopter mar­kets.

Addi­tion­al­ly, Eve’s agnos­tic prod­uct port­fo­lio of next-gen­er­a­tion air traf­fic man­age­ment soft­ware, ser­vice capa­bil­i­ties, and fleet oper­a­tions ser­vices will also be intro­duced to cre­ate a safe, scal­able net­work for each Falko lessee using Eve’s air­craft.

Andre Stein, co-CEO of Eve, said: “Our part­ner­ship with Falko, a trust­ed air­craft leas­ing leader, cements our posi­tion in the glob­al Urban Air Mobil­i­ty mar­ket­place and not only widens our poten­tial oper­a­tor base through Falko’s glob­al cus­tomer foot­print but increas­es our abil­i­ty to pro­vide full stack solu­tions, through part­ner­ships. 

“We are proud to have Falko as a strate­gic part­ner in Eve as our two organ­i­sa­tions col­lab­o­rate to lead a new gen­er­a­tion of sus­tain­able inno­va­tion, in avi­a­tion.”

Falko is a spe­cial­ist air­craft oper­at­ing leas­ing, asset man­age­ment and air­craft ser­vices com­pa­ny focused on the region­al air­craft sec­tor. It is cur­rent­ly one of the world’s largest lessors of region­al air­craft by val­ue and air­craft num­bers.

The com­pa­ny has been close­ly coop­er­at­ing with Embraer since 2014 and chose Eve as its Urban Air Mobil­i­ty part­ner due to Embraer’s long record for cer­ti­fy­ing trust­ed air­craft for more than 52 years.

Jere­my Barnes, CEO of Falko, added: “I am thrilled to announce this huge devel­op­ment in our long-stand­ing and suc­cess­ful rela­tion­ship with Embraer. We are very excit­ed by our strate­gic part­ner­ship with Eve which forms part of our dri­ve to be at the fore­front of the green­ing of the avi­a­tion sec­tor.

“We firm­ly believe in the prospects of the eVTOL mar­ket and that Eve, with the sup­port of Embraer’s expe­ri­ence in the man­u­fac­tur­ing, cer­ti­fi­ca­tion and sup­port of air­craft, will be a mar­ket leader.”