FeaturedNews

Manta Aircraft Continues its Leadership Path in the AAM Industry

Italy-based Man­ta Air­craft first came to the medi­a’s atten­tion in 2021. Its plans to become a leader in the AAM Indus­try with an Evo­lu­tive Hybrid-Elec­tric long range eV/STOL Air­craft is a noble pur­suit with ambi­tions of using its ANN fam­i­ly (ANN2, ANN PLUS and ANN Drone) for a vari­ety of pur­pos­es includ­ing per­son­al, air taxi, med­ical, search and res­cue as well as for car­ry­ing cargo.Therefore, it was of no sur­prise to learn the com­pa­ny was exhibit­ing at the recent Dubai Air­show, where its sleek and futur­is­tic craft were on dis­play. 

: The ANN2 is “a speed­er twin seater” for gen­er­al avi­a­tion and mul­ti-pur­pose util­i­ty mis­sions. The car­bon-fibre struc­ture has a tan­dem-seat con­fig­u­ra­tion. It is fast, small and agile.

: ANN PLUS also has a car­bon-fibre struc­ture with four to six seats for per­son­al mobil­i­ty and busi­ness trav­el, but adjustable for any car­go trans­port oper­a­tions.

: ANN Drone can be con­trolled remote­ly or oper­at­ed autonomous­ly. Range, speed and climb per­for­mance is above aver­age com­pared to its com­pe­ti­tion due to the design fea­tures and the advanced hybrid-elec­tric propul­sion.

Dubai was a great suc­cess for Man­ta, com­ing on the heels of oth­er pre­sen­ta­tions at the Paris Air­show and more recent­ly the Air Mobil­i­ty Show at the Rome Exhi­bi­tion Cen­tre. This week the com­pa­ny tweet­ed it had signed an MOU with the Abu Dhabi Invest­ment Office to bring its air­craft to the SAVI (Smart and Autonomous Vehi­cle Indus­try) clus­ter and estab­lish a series of coop­er­a­tions with stake­hold­ers.

Based at Mas­dar City, Abu Dhabi, SAVI aims to posi­tion UAE’s cap­i­tal city as a lead­ing smart and autonomous vehi­cles hub. It will sup­port inno­va­tion and the com­mer­cial­i­sa­tion of these tech­nolo­gies in the coun­try, pro­vid­ing advanced facil­i­ties and val­ue-added ser­vices with­in an enabling reg­u­la­to­ry envi­ron­ment. A mas­sive amount of mon­ey is being invest­ed.

Launched in Octo­ber, Ahmed Jasim Al Zaabi, Chair­man of the Abu Dhabi Depart­ment of Eco­nom­ic Devel­op­ment, com­ment­ed, “SAVI is pro­ject­ed to con­tribute Dhs90-120bn to the UAE econ­o­my and gen­er­ate 30,000–50,000 jobs.”

Giv­en the country’s deter­mi­na­tion and ambi­tion to become a glob­al leader in the AAM indus­try, this is a major deal for Man­ta Air­craft, for SAVI is high­ly exclu­sive and those cho­sen will, more than like­ly, be at the fore­front of the impend­ing green avi­a­tion rev­o­lu­tion.

For more infor­ma­tion

https://www.mantaaircraft.com/

(Top graph­ic image: Man­ta Air­craft)

eVTOL Insights is part of the Industry Insights Group. Registered in the UK. Company No: 14395769