NetJets to purchase 150 eVTOL aircraft from Lilium, with FlightSafety covering training services as part of MoU

Net­Jets, the world’s largest pri­vate avi­a­tion com­pa­ny and avi­a­tion train­ing firm Flight­Safe­ty Inter­na­tion­al have signed a MoU with Lil­i­um for the right to pur­chase up to 150 eVTOL air­craft.

The arrange­ment will intro­duce more options to Net­Jets own­ers to com­ple­ment their exist­ing flight pat­terns, with the com­pa­ny antic­i­pat­ing to sup­port Lil­i­um with a pri­vate sales cam­paign for indi­vid­u­als to pur­chase the Lil­i­um Jet.

Lil­i­um will also part­ner with Flight­Safe­ty Inter­na­tion­al to pro­vide prod­ucts and ser­vices, such as course­ware, indus­try lead­ing immer­sive and mixed real­i­ty train­ing devices and crew train­ing to sup­port eVTOL oper­a­tions.

Daniel Wie­gand, Co-Founder and CEO of Lil­i­um said: “This part­ner­ship is a major step in our mis­sion to build rad­i­cal­ly bet­ter ways of mov­ing and to elec­tri­fy region­al air trav­el. We believe that the pri­vate and busi­ness pro­fes­sion­al seg­ments will be high­ly attrac­tive mar­kets in the future and, like­wise, ear­ly adopters of the eVTOL rev­o­lu­tion.

“We couldn’t be hap­pi­er to col­lab­o­rate with Net­Jets and Flight­Safe­ty to elec­tri­fy this mar­ket and hope to forge a long-term strate­gic part­ner­ship to bring high speed region­al elec­tric air mobil­i­ty to the world.”

In addi­tion, the two com­pa­nies will explore a busi­ness mod­el for the oper­a­tion of Lilium’s net­work in Flori­da as well as oth­er regions in the USA and Europe.

This planned col­lab­o­ra­tion with Net­Jets is also expect­ed to boost Lilium’s com­mer­cial ambi­tions in Flori­da and oth­er US mar­kets and would cre­ate sup­ple­men­tal direct sales oppor­tu­ni­ties. The Lil­i­um Jet will allow Net­Jets to advance its sus­tain­abil­i­ty efforts by offer­ing its cus­tomer base region­al trans­porta­tion alter­na­tives.

Adam John­son, CEO of Net­Jets said: “We’re delight­ed to part­ner with Lilium’s expe­ri­enced team to pro­vide sus­tain­able flight ser­vices to our cus­tomers. Lilium’s air­craft will expand our fleet options and pro­vide our cus­tomers with a new and flex­i­ble means of pri­vate air trav­el.”

Net­Jets oper­ates the world’s largest fleet of pri­vate jets, and their strong own­er base will pro­vide Lil­i­um with scale and sup­port for its ecosys­tem in the US, where plans for a Flori­da trans­port hub con­tin­ue to progress.

While Flight­Safe­ty Inter­na­tion­al is the world’s pre­mier pro­fes­sion­al avi­a­tion train­ing com­pa­ny and sup­pli­er of flight sim­u­la­tors, visu­al sys­tems and dis­plays to com­mer­cial, gov­ern­ment and mil­i­tary organ­i­sa­tions.

The com­pa­ny pro­vides train­ing for pilots, tech­ni­cians and oth­er avi­a­tion pro­fes­sion­als from 167 coun­tries and inde­pen­dent ter­ri­to­ries. Flight­Safe­ty oper­ates the world’s largest fleet of advanced full-flight sim­u­la­tors at Learn­ing Cen­ters and train­ing loca­tions in the Unit­ed States, Cana­da, France and the Unit­ed King­dom.

Brad Thress, Pres­i­dent and CEO of Flight­Safe­ty Inter­na­tion­al, added: “Our focus on tech­nol­o­gy and adap­tive learn­ing will help pre­pare avi­a­tion pro­fes­sion­als with the high­est lev- els of exper­tise to sup­port oper­a­tion of the Lil­i­um Jet.”

The Lil­i­um Jet’s flex­i­ble cab­in archi­tec­ture is expect­ed to enable a range of con­fig­u­ra­tions, includ­ing con­fig­u­ra­tions with four- to six-pas­sen­ger lay­outs that address both pre­mi­um and shut­tle mis­sion pro­files.