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Hunch Mobility Chooses “Electra’s Ultra Short Hybrid-Electric Aircraft For On-Demand Regional Air Travel Across India”

Electra.aero and Hunch Mobil­i­ty have signed a Mem­o­ran­dum of Under­stand­ing (MOU) to use Electra’s EL9 ultra short hybrid-elec­tric air­craft and expand on-demand region­al air trav­el to com­mu­ni­ties across India, reports a press release.

The agree­ment was for­malised at the India Urban Air Mobil­i­ty Expo 2025 in Greater Noi­da, host­ed by the Con­fed­er­a­tion of Indi­an Indus­try (CII) as part of the Bharat Mobil­i­ty Glob­al Expo 2025, show­cas­ing the future of inno­v­a­tive mobil­i­ty solu­tions in India. 

The part­ner­ship com­bines the capa­bil­i­ties of Electra’s 9‑passenger EL9 air­craft, which can take off and land in under 150 ft, with Hunch Mobility’s (a tech­nol­o­gy-dri­ven plat­form for afford­able on-demand air trav­el, offer­ing ser­vices under the brand BLADE India) advanced soft­ware plat­form, acces­si­ble air­craft oper­a­tor net­work and key infra­struc­ture with­in major urban cen­tres.

The EL9’s abil­i­ties for in-flight bat­tery recharg­ing and qui­et oper­a­tion from spaces as com­pact as soc­cer fields, park­ing lots or heli­copter pads, makes it suit­ed for India’s evolv­ing mobil­i­ty needs.

Amit Dut­ta (l), Man­ag­ing Direc­tor, Hunch Mobil­i­ty and Marc Aus­man ®, Elec­tra Vice Pres­i­dent, Sales and Sup­port, sign an MOU to intro­duce Electra’s EL9 Ultra Short air­craft to India’s fast-grow­ing trans­porta­tion mar­ket. (Cred­it: Elec­tra)

Marc Aus­man, VP, Sales and Sup­port at Elec­tra, com­ment­ed, “This part­ner­ship com­bines Electra’s inno­v­a­tive air­craft tech­nol­o­gy with Hunch Mobility’s oper­a­tional exper­tise and mar­ket pres­ence to deliv­er clean­er, qui­eter, and faster trans­porta­tion options that address India’s press­ing mobil­i­ty chal­lenges.”

Amit Dut­ta, MD of Hunch Mobil­i­ty, added, “The EL9 air­craft will enable us to expand our ser­vices and pro­vide a seam­less tran­si­tion to elec­tric air mobil­i­ty for our cus­tomers.”

Under the terms of the MOU, the two com­pa­nies will explore route net­works that take full advan­tage of the EL9’s short take­off and land­ing capa­bil­i­ties, tar­get­ing high­ly con­gest­ed ground routes.

Hunch Mobil­i­ty will also con­tribute oper­a­tional insights to opti­mise the EL9’s per­for­mance, main­te­nance, and pas­sen­ger expe­ri­ence. The col­lab­o­ra­tion includes joint mar­ket­ing ini­tia­tives and coor­di­nat­ed advo­ca­cy for poli­cies sup­port­ing research, devel­op­ment and infra­struc­ture for Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty.

For more infor­ma­tion

https://www.electra.aero

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(Top image: Hunch Mobil­i­ty will oper­ate Electra’s EL9 Ultra Short air­craft to deliv­er clean­er, qui­eter, and faster trans­porta­tion options to com­mu­ni­ties across India — Cred­it: Elec­tra)

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