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Surf Air Secures “Early Delivery Leasing for 90 Electra eSTOL for Southern Airways and Mokulele Airlines”

Surf Air Mobil­i­ty announced this week, it has secured ear­ly deliv­ery leas­ing for 90 Elec­tra eSTOL (Elec­tric Short Take-Off and Land) Air­craft for inte­gra­tion into its Nation­al flight net­work includ­ing South­ern Air­ways Express and Mokulele Air­lines, reports a press release.

The release says, “Electra’s abil­i­ty to take off and land in as lit­tle as 150 ft will enable direct-to-des­ti­na­tion air trans­porta­tion beyond large air­ports, includ­ing small region­al air­ports and nov­el Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty (AAM) infra­struc­ture, expand­ing region­al trans­porta­tion to a broad­er cus­tomer base than pri­vate avi­a­tion cur­rent­ly serves.” The agree­ment also includes a col­lab­o­ra­tion on the devel­op­ment of route net­works.

It con­tin­ues, “Surf Air is the pre­ferred lessor and provider of Elec­tra eSTOL air­craft to its cus­tomers and data ser­vices partner(s) under an Air­craft-as-a-Ser­vice leas­ing pro­gram. The agree­ment will also devel­op pre­dic­tive ana­lyt­ics sys­tems to reduce over­all oper­at­ing costs and stream­line oper­a­tions.”

Stan Lit­tle, CEO of Surf Air Mobil­i­ty, remarked, “Elec­tra stands out as one of the ear­ly mar­ket lead­ers in region­al air mobil­i­ty and we’re excit­ed to bring them onto our plat­form. Their inno­va­tions around hybrid-elec­tric, eSTOL air­craft, which can essen­tial­ly take off and land on a foot­ball field-sized space, will unlock tremen­dous oppor­tu­ni­ties with­in the chang­ing land­scape of region­al air mobil­i­ty.”

He con­tin­ued, “We intend to lever­age our lead­ing posi­tion to become the defin­i­tive launch plat­form for new advanced air­craft tech­nolo­gies such as Elec­tra.” 

Stan Lit­tle

John S. Lang­ford, Founder and CEO of Elec­tra, added, “As one of the country’s largest com­muter air­lines, Surf Air is at the fore­front of address­ing the grow­ing demand for clean­er, more afford­able and con­ve­nient trav­el options.”

Surf Air’s “Air­craft-as-a-Ser­vice Pro­gram” is being designed to solve a prob­lem, where small­er region­al Part 135 oper­a­tors have not had the same access to air­craft fund­ing options and soft­ware ser­vices as larg­er com­mer­cial air car­ri­ers. To low­er the bar­ri­er to entry, nec­es­sary financ­ing and soft­ware tools are being pro­vid­ed to enable a new gen­er­a­tion of region­al air­craft and air oper­a­tors to launch, grow and opti­mise their busi­ness­es.

Mean­while, Surf Air “con­tin­ues to devel­op its own elec­tri­fied pow­er­train tech­nol­o­gy for the Cess­na Grand Car­a­van air­craft whose devel­op­ment is sup­port­ed by an exclu­sive rela­tion­ship with Tex­tron Avi­a­tion,” con­tin­ues the release. “Surf Air will use its plat­form to bring the elec­tri­fied Car­a­van air­craft to mar­ket on a glob­al scale, thus prov­ing what it can do for oth­er air­craft mak­ers as well.”

Jamie Streck­er, VP of Busi­ness Devel­op­ment for Surf Air, commented,“With bil­lions of dol­lars being invest­ed into the region­al and advanced air mobil­i­ty space, it’s becom­ing increas­ing­ly impor­tant for a solu­tion that can on-ramp new tech­nolo­gies and get them into the hands of oper­a­tors as quick­ly and safe­ly as pos­si­ble.”

He added, “Through our air mobil­i­ty plat­form and our Air­craft-as-a-Ser­vice pro­gram, we believe we can accel­er­ate Electra’s eSTOL air­craft time to mar­ket.”

For more infor­ma­tion

https://www.surfair.com/

https://www.electra.aero/

(Top image: Electra/Surf Air)

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