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Lilium Confirms 2026 Target for First Customer Deliveries, “Offers Additional Detail on Testing Program”

Lil­i­um has con­firmed its 2026 tar­get for first cus­tomer deliv­er­ies of its eVTOL Jet, while pro­vid­ing addi­tion­al test­ing pro­gram details, reports a press release. 

This con­fir­ma­tion is based on a recent review cov­er­ing the Jet’s first manned flight, which is now sched­uled for ear­ly 2025, and the readi­ness of its sup­port organ­i­sa­tion and train­ing devices for cus­tomers.

Lil­i­um is present­ly con­struct­ing the first two air­craft at its pro­duc­tion facil­i­ty in Gaut­ing, south of Munich, Ger­many. The com­pa­ny has been work­ing with Flight­Safe­ty Inter­na­tion­al on an engi­neer­ing sim­u­la­tor which is to be deliv­ered ear­ly next year. The sim­u­la­tor will be used to sup­port the type cer­ti­fi­ca­tion pro­gram.

The Jet MSN 2, now being pre­pared for a first sched­uled manned flight in ear­ly 2025, is being assem­bled with its fuse­lage, land­ing gear, wing, canard and elec­tric har­ness­es. “This change,” explains the release, “dri­ven by the deliv­ery of cer­tain parts of flight-test­ing equip­ment, com­po­nent parts of the air­craft, and soft­ware, is due to the indi­rect effects of the ongo­ing indus­try-wide sup­ply chain con­straints.” 

It goes on, “This shift has no mate­r­i­al impact on cus­tomer deliv­er­ies, plan­ning or total pro­gram costs. Assem­bly of MSN 3 will start lat­er this year and the air­craft will join the cer­ti­fi­ca­tion flight test cam­paign in 2025.”

Klaus Roewe

Klaus Roewe, CEO of Lil­i­um, remarked, “We con­tin­ue to make sig­nif­i­cant progress towards entry into ser­vice, not only on cer­ti­fi­ca­tion, but also train­ing devices along­side sup­port and ser­vices for our cus­tomers. Our lat­est pro­gram review high­light­ed that our plan for 2026 first deliv­er­ies is con­firmed despite the new time­line for the first flight, with no mate­r­i­al impact on cus­tomer deliv­er­ies.”

He con­tin­ued, “With EASA, we con­tin­ue to be work­ing on the high­est safe­ty lev­el of our prod­uct and are ramp­ing up pro­duc­tion of the test air­craft. We also want to announce by year end, the 2026 launch loca­tion of the Lil­i­um Jet with one of our cus­tomers.”

The release con­tin­ues, “Lil­i­um and Flight­Safe­ty Inter­na­tion­al will soon present a flight crew train­ing sim­u­la­tor to EASA and FOCA (the Swiss Fed­er­al Office of Civ­il Avi­a­tion which sup­ports EASA in the train­ing pro­gram cer­ti­fi­ca­tion). This will pave the way to final devel­op­ment of the train­ing devices.”

Lil­i­um also car­ries on build­ing its sup­port and ser­vices organ­i­sa­tion, Lil­i­um POWER-ON, to ensure a smooth entry into ser­vice expe­ri­ence for its cus­tomers. After part­ner­ing with AJW Group for mate­r­i­al ser­vices; Dedi­enne for ground sup­port equip­ment; and Star­Charge for its charg­ing sta­tion, Lil­i­um POWER-ON is now con­cen­trat­ing efforts on dig­i­tal solu­tions.

For more infor­ma­tion

https://lilium.com

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