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Australia: AMSL Aero Gains “First Civil Customer Order for 20 Vertiia Zero-Emission Aircraft” 

Aus­tralian zero emis­sion air­craft design­er and man­u­fac­tur­er, AMSL Aero, has signed an order and received deposits for 10 of its Ver­ti­ia VTOL air­craft, with an option for 10 more, from its first civ­il cus­tomer, Avi­a­tion Logis­tics, reports a press release. Avi­a­tion Logis­tics is one of Australia’s largest gen­er­al avi­a­tion and region­al air­line groups.  

The com­pa­ny could be fly­ing 20 Ver­ti­ia air­craft as ear­ly as 2027 (sub­ject to reg­u­la­to­ry approvals) through its asso­ci­at­ed com­pa­nies Air Link, AirMed and Char­tair cov­er­ing pas­sen­ger ser­vices, air­craft char­ter, air freight and aeromed­ical flights from its sev­en bases across Aus­tralia.

Ver­ti­ia is “a world-first pas­sen­ger capa­ble hydro­gen VTOL,” that takes off like a heli­copter and flies like a fixed wing aero­plane. The air­craft will be “the world’s most effi­cient long range zero emis­sions VTOL, with a range of up to 1,000km and cruis­ing speeds of 300kmh,” explains the release.

Based at Sydney’s Bankstown Air­port with oper­a­tions around Aus­tralia, AMSL Aero has secured more than AUS50 mil­lion in fund­ing from major pri­vate investors and gov­ern­ment pro­grams to devel­op the new air­craft that is “set to change the way peo­ple trav­el through­out Aus­tralia and the world.”

Max York, CEO of AMSL Aero, com­ment­ed, “2024 is going to be a huge year for us as we con­tin­ue to test-fly the air­craft. We are thrilled with our first civ­il order for Ver­ti­ia. This deal cat­a­pults the air­craft from devel­op­ment to com­mer­cial real­i­ty.”

Max York

Avi­a­tion Logis­tics Exec­u­tive Direc­tor, Matthew Kline, remarked, “This agree­ment marks a sig­nif­i­cant mile­stone in the group’s fleet replace­ment and growth strat­e­gy as well as rep­re­sent­ing a sig­nif­i­cant invest­ment in an Aus­tralian-based air­craft design­er and man­u­fac­tur­er. We are extreme­ly excit­ed by the oppor­tu­ni­ties that Ver­ti­ia offer.” 

He con­tin­ued, “We believe this air­craft is set to rev­o­lu­tionise the move­ment of peo­ple and freight across the coun­try by pro­vid­ing greater access to air trans­port whilst open­ing up new mar­ket oppor­tu­ni­ties that cur­rent­ly do not exist.”

Back­ground

AMSL Aero was found­ed in 2017 by Andrew Moore, an aero­nau­ti­cal engi­neer with over 20 years’ expe­ri­ence in the air­craft indus­try and Siob­han Lyn­don who also has 20 or more years’ expe­ri­ence, but in the tech­nol­o­gy, telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions and pro­fes­sion­al ser­vices sec­tors. The name AMSL Aero is derived from the Founders’ ini­tials.

The team at AMSL Aero include expe­ri­enced aero­space, elec­tri­cal, avion­ics and mechan­i­cal engi­neers. The com­pa­ny is backed by pri­vate investors includ­ing IP Group Aus­tralia, Tel­stra Super, Host Plus and St Bak­er Ener­gy Inno­va­tion Fund, as well as the Aus­tralian Gov­ern­ment.

For more infor­ma­tion

www.amslaero.com

(Top image: MSML Aero Ver­ti­ia)

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