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Norway: Dovetail Aviation, Skydive Voss Sign Agreement “to Introduce Electric Aircraft for Skydiving” 

Dove­tail Elec­tric Avi­a­tion, a leader in retro­fitting exist­ing air­craft with elec­tric pow­er­trains, and Sky­dive Voss, a Nor­we­gian sky­div­ing oper­a­tor, have signed a col­lab­o­ra­tion agree­ment to con­vert sev­er­al Cess­na Car­a­vans 208 into elec­tric air­craft, reports a press release. The two com­pa­nies will also explore the con­ver­sion of oth­er small­er air­craft used for sky­div­ing appli­ca­tions, includ­ing the Cess­na 182 and 206.

This part­ner­ship marks an impor­tant step towards reduc­ing the envi­ron­men­tal impact of sky­div­ing in Nor­way. The aim is to intro­duce the first elec­tric air­craft for such activ­i­ties in the region dur­ing 2026. 

First tri­al flights may take place next year if the involved con­sor­tium (Dove­tail, Sky­dive Voss and Scan­di­na­vian Sea­planes) suc­ceed with a pro­pos­al under the Inter­na­tion­al Test Are­na for zero and low-emis­sion air­craft. 

The pro­gram, ini­ti­at­ed by Avi­nor and the Civ­il Avi­a­tion Author­i­ty of Nor­way (CAA Nor­way), aims to accel­er­ate the use of green tech­nolo­gies via tri­alling and demon­stra­tion projects.

Dovetail’s Cess­na 208 elec­tric con­ver­sion project

The release states, “With this agree­ment, Sky­dive Voss becomes the sec­ond cus­tomer for Dove­tail Elec­tric Avi­a­tion in Nor­way, fol­low­ing a sim­i­lar part­ner­ship estab­lished ear­li­er this year with Scan­di­na­vian Sea­planes. Both agree­ments rep­re­sent a grow­ing inter­est in the tran­si­tion to elec­tric avi­a­tion.” 

It con­tin­ues, “The part­ner­ship between Dove­tail and Sky­dive Voss high­lights a shared com­mit­ment to advanc­ing zero-emis­sion tech­nolo­gies, con­tribut­ing to Norway’s ambi­tious cli­mate goals, and set­ting a new stan­dard for the future of sky­div­ing.”

For more infor­ma­tion

https://dovetail.aero/

https://www.skydivevoss.no/

(Top image: Dove­tail and Sky­dive Voss per­son­nel)

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