Eve Air Mobility signs agreements with Aviair, HeliSpirit and Microflite and increases order book for its eVTOL aircraft

Eve Air Mobil­i­ty has announced sev­er­al part­ner­ships with com­pa­nies at this year’s Sin­ga­pore Air­show, which includes orders for up to 90 of its eVTOL air­craft.

The first announce­ment is with Avi­air and HeliSpir­it, part of HM Con­sol­i­dat­ed Group, with the col­lab­o­ra­tion con­tem­plat­ing an order of up to 50 air­craft with flights in Aus­tralia com­menc­ing from 2026 by Avi­air or HeliSpir­it.

These two com­pa­nies are mul­ti-award win­ning oper­a­tors which serve some of West­ern Australia’s most icon­ic tourist attrac­tions in the Kim­ber­ley, South-West, and Greater Perth regions. The new part­ner­ship will add Eve’s eVTOL air­craft to their exist­ing fleet of more than 50 rotary and fixed-wing air­craft.

Michael McConachy, Avi­air and HeliSpir­it Man­ag­ing Direc­tor, said, “This year marks 20 years of HeliSpir­it being eco-accred­it­ed as a green trav­el leader, enter­ing us into the Eco Tourism Aus­tralia Hall of Fame, so this is great tim­ing to com­mit to sig­nif­i­cant­ly reduc­ing our car­bon foot­print by oper­at­ing zero-emis­sion elec­tric air­craft.”

“Eve’s eVTOL tech­nol­o­gy is well-aligned with our busi­ness mod­el and desire to be at the fore­front of car­bon-neu­tral solu­tions for the avi­a­tion indus­try. The low-noise foot­print of the air­craft makes them par­tic­u­lar­ly well-suit­ed to oper­a­tions in sen­si­tive nat­ur­al set­tings, includ­ing nation­al parks and World Her­itage-list­ed areas, as well as for urban trans­fers pro­vid­ing quick and effi­cient solu­tions for both busi­ness and tourism trav­ellers.”

The sec­ond announce­ment announced at the Sin­ga­pore Air Show was an order for up to 40 eVTOL air­craft with Microflite, one of Aus­trali­a’s main heli­copter oper­a­tors, to sup­port the imple­men­ta­tion of new urban air mobil­i­ty oper­a­tions in the coun­try by 2026.

Microflite and Eve plan to begin their part­ner­ship using heli­copters as a proof of con­cept to val­i­date para­me­ters that will apply to future eVTOL oper­a­tions. This part­ner­ship also aims to devel­op new ser­vices and pro­ce­dures that will cre­ate a safe and scal­able oper­at­ing envi­ron­ment for eVTOL oper­a­tions togeth­er with com­mu­ni­ties and oth­er indus­try stake­hold­ers.

Jonathan Booth, CEO of Microflite, said: “This order builds on the suc­cess­ful part­ner­ship we have estab­lished with Eve and val­i­dates the excit­ing poten­tial of zero-emis­sion air­craft in Aus­tralia. After work­ing close­ly with Eve over the past few months, we have iden­ti­fied a net­work of poten­tial routes and we look for­ward to work­ing with com­mer­cial part­ners and com­mu­ni­ties to pri­ori­tise these routes and tri­al select­ed oper­a­tions with our exist­ing fleet.”

Microflite Heli­copter Ser­vices oper­ates the largest fleet of tur­bine heli­copters in Vic­to­ria, Aus­tralia and focus­es on pre­mi­um tours, char­ter flights, pilot train­ing, and emer­gency ser­vices. Its icon­ic red air­craft have become a famil­iar sight in the skies over Mel­bourne and its sur­round­ings.

Com­ment­ing on both part­ner­ships, Andre Stein, co-CEO of Eve, added: ““This ini­tia­tive is a sig­nif­i­cant mile­stone for Eve. Our part­ner­ship opens up an impor­tant mar­ket in West­ern Aus­tralia that will see our air­craft serv­ing Australia’s icon­ic tourist attrac­tions with zero-emis­sion and low-noise flights. We share a com­mon vision of a car­bon-neu­tral future for air mobil­i­ty, sup­port­ed by Eve’s eVTOL, com­pre­hen­sive ser­vice and sup­port net­work, and air traf­fic man­age­ment solu­tions.

“Our part­ner­ship with Microflite will see pro­gres­sive com­mence­ment of car­bon-neu­tral oper­a­tions in the lead-up to first deliv­er­ies of zero-emis­sion air­craft in 2026. We look for­ward to learn­ing togeth­er and build­ing safe and scal­able oper­a­tions with the sup­port of local com­mu­ni­ties.”