Ace VTOL Announces “AUD250 Million Order” from Aeroauto

Ace VTOL, the Aus­tralian eVTOL com­pa­ny, announced this week a AUD250 mil­lion order for its flag­ship per­son­al air­craft from U.S Flori­da-based Aeroau­to, reports a press release.

The air­craft, named the GT Slip­stream, is a two-seater fly­ing “mus­cle” car that will reach speeds of up to 270 mph and fly up to 300 miles on a sin­gle charge. The release explains, “The GT fea­tures a patent­ed propul­sion sys­tem, pow­ered by four next-gen­er­a­tion Arc Reac­tion Engines, and is able to tran­si­tion seam­less­ly from pre­ci­sion low speed flight to high speed A to B flight with the push of a but­ton.” It adds, “The air­craft is avail­able in ten retro colours and is sched­uled for mar­ket entry in the Unit­ed States as ear­ly as 2027.”

Aeroau­to is set up to be a retail­er of eVTOL air­craft in the U.S and cur­rent­ly offers access to var­i­ous per­son­al fly­ing craft from a selec­tion of glob­al man­u­fac­tur­ers. The com­pa­ny pro­vides a sales and ser­vice sup­port includ­ing flight train­ing, main­te­nance and access to a nation­al ver­ti­port infra­struc­ture. This first-of-its-kind col­lab­o­ra­tion agree­ment sig­nals a com­mit­ment from Aeroau­to to take deliv­ery of a min­i­mum of 100 GT vehi­cles by the end of 2040.

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Mean­while, Ace is in con­ver­sa­tion with the FAA on poten­tial cer­ti­fi­ca­tion path­ways. The first pro­to­type vehi­cle is expect­ed to be com­plet­ed with­in 12 months and will begin test­ing under exper­i­men­tal cer­ti­fi­ca­tion reg­u­la­tions, includ­ing the new pow­ered lift pilot­ing one expect­ed to be required for eVTOL oper­a­tion. The release states, “The company’s sim­u­la­tion train­ing for indi­vid­ual pilots will ini­tial­ly take place with Neu­ro­botX , a Boe­ing-backed com­pa­ny focus­ing on advanced AI machine learn­ing, offer­ing own­ers ear­ly access to become famil­iarised with their reserved eVTOLs.”

Aeroauto’s invest­ment in the Ace eVTOL also includes a com­mit­ment to sup­port the launch of Ace’s air taxi vari­ant, Trin­i­ty. This fea­tures “a mul­ti­func­tion air­frame, high-per­for­mance engine, and advanced flight man­age­ment… for up to five pas­sen­gers or one met­ric tonne of car­go and is the first eVTOL to accom­mo­date wheel­chair pas­sen­gers.” The Trin­i­ty is tar­get­ed for ser­vice entry in the Unit­ed States by 2028.

Sean Bor­man, CEO of Aeroau­to, com­ment­ed, “The GT and Trin­i­ty are vehi­cles that will change how peo­ple trav­el and live. We are con­fi­dent that our cus­tomers will love them as much as we do.”

Brett Northey, CEO of Ace VTOL, added, “As a com­pa­ny in the emerg­ing eVTOL space, we’re always look­ing for part­ners that share our com­mit­ment to safe­ty, ser­vice and sus­tain­abil­i­ty and we couldn’t be hap­pi­er to be work­ing with Sean and his high­ly com­pe­tent team to bring eVTOLs to the per­son­al trans­porta­tion mar­ket.”

Trin­i­ty eVTOL (Cred­it: Ace)

Back­ground

Ace VTOL was found­ed in 2022 and is locat­ed in Perth, Aus­tralia. Aeroau­to is a pio­neer­ing retail­er of per­son­al eVTOL air­craft and based in the U.S.

For more infor­ma­tion

https://www.acevtol.com/gt

www.aeroautosales.com

(Top image: GT Slip­stream — Cred­it: Ace)