SkyDrive Selects Avidyne Quantum Avionics Systems

Sky­Drive announced today at the EAA Air­Ven­ture Oshkosh 2023 that it has select­ed Avidyne’s Quan­tum Open Avion­ics Plat­form for its first pro­duc­tion air­craft. Avi­dyne is based in Mel­bourne, Flori­da.

Sky­Drive is devel­op­ing its eVTOL air­craft to ful­fil their vision of a future where every­one has access to eVTOL as their dai­ly trans­porta­tion. Designed to be flown by one pilot with two pas­sen­gers on board for intra-city flights, it requires cus­tomised, cer­ti­fied avion­ics sys­tems to enable its mis­sion.

Avi­dyne was found­ed in 1994 with the mis­sion of mod­ernising avion­ics by apply­ing advanced tech­nol­o­gy to improve safe­ty and increase air­craft util­i­ty. For more than two decades, Avi­dyne claims it has been a mar­ket-leader in the design and man­u­fac­tur­ing of easy-to-use inte­grat­ed avion­ics sys­tems for a vari­ety of air­craft.

“We are very pleased to have Avi­dyne as our avion­ics part­ner for our eVTOL air­craft,” said Sky­Drive Chief Devel­op­ment Offi­cer Arnaud Cov­ille. “Avidyne’s Quan­tum avion­ics sys­tem is very com­pet­i­tive in per­for­mance, weight, and cost and will play one of the most impor­tant roles of the air­craft sys­tem of eVTOL

“The avion­ics require­ments and mis­sion pro­files of the all-elec­tric Sky­Drive eVTOL air­craft are a unique oppor­tu­ni­ty for Quantum’s open avion­ics plat­form and we are hon­oured to have been select­ed to cre­ate a cus­tomised avion­ics solu­tion for this inno­v­a­tive new air­craft,” said Avi­dyne Chief Exec­u­tive Offi­cer Dan Schwinn.

Avidyne’s con­tin­u­ing lead­er­ship in inno­va­tion and prod­uct design gives pilots and their pas­sen­gers a sim­ply smarter way to fly. In addi­tion to avion­ics solu­tions for the Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty mar­ket, the com­pa­ny offers a full line of avion­ics sys­tems for cor­po­rate, mil­i­tary, and own­er flown pis­ton and tur­bine pow­ered fixed wing and rotary wing air­craft.

On Mon­day, Sky­Drive and CT UAV, a sub­sidiary of CT Group in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet­nam agreed on a pre-order of up to 100 three-seater eVTOL air­craft. Sky­Drive was estab­lished in July 2018 after test­ing fly­ing car con­cepts and pro­to­types from 2014.

CT UAV in Viet­nam pre-orders 100 eVTOL air­craft from Sky­Drive