Dufour Aerospace Attracts New Investment From Vista to Accelerate Expansion

Dufour Aero­space announced today it has suc­cess­ful­ly com­plet­ed a Series B invest­ment from Vista Glob­al Hold­ing, a lead­ing glob­al pri­vate avi­a­tion group, to fur­ther help its expan­sion, reports a press release. Apart from Vista, two new investors par­tic­i­pat­ed in this fund­ing round.

The release states, “Vista’s invest­ment and deep indus­try expe­ri­ence pro­vides valu­able sup­port in expand­ing the con­sid­er­able poten­tial of Dufour’s inno­v­a­tive tilt-wing tech­nolo­gies and aero­space prod­ucts. This tech­nol­o­gy will be applied in Dufour’s unmanned Aero2 air­craft and its flag­ship manned Aero3 air­craft.”

Thomas Pfam­mat­ter, CEO of Dufour Aero­space, com­ment­ed, “We are delight­ed this financ­ing round was led by Vista. They recog­nise the impor­tance of devel­op­ing suc­cess­ful prod­ucts and solu­tions to sup­port the future of hybrid-elec­tric tilt-wing air­craft.”

Thomas Pfam­mat­ter

Thomas Flohr, Founder and Chair­man of Vista, added, “It is an excit­ing time for Dufour, and this invest­ment is in line with our strat­e­gy of sup­port­ing envi­ron­men­tal air mobil­i­ty solu­tions which fur­ther reit­er­ates our com­mit­ment to ensur­ing a green­er future for our indus­try.”

Back­ground

Dufour Aero­space relies on the tilt-wing prin­ci­ple — the tilt-wing air­craft Aero3 — which is cur­rent­ly under devel­op­ment and will car­ry both pas­sen­gers and health­care patients. The air­craft takes off and lands ver­ti­cal­ly, but flies as fast as an aero­plane.

While the pro­pellers are elec­tri­cal­ly dri­ven, hybrid ele­ments through con­ven­tion­al tur­bine or fuel cells ensure a suf­fi­cient­ly long range. Dufour is also devel­op­ing the Aero2, an unmanned aer­i­al vehi­cle that is also based on the tilt-wing prin­ci­ple.

For more infor­ma­tion

www.dufour.aero/

https://vistaglobal.com/

(Images: Dufour Aero­space)