Ascendance, PhilJets Collaborate “to Revolutionise Regional Air Mobility in Philippines”

Ascen­dance has signed a Let­ter of Intent (LOI) with Philip­pines-based PhilJets, to acquire five addi­tion­al air­craft, strength­en­ing its rela­tion­ship with one of the region’s lead­ing avi­a­tion oper­a­tors, reports a press release. This LOI brings the total num­ber of Atea air­craft pre-ordered by PhilJets to 15.

Addi­tion­al­ly, the two com­pa­nies have entered in to a strate­gic part­ner­ship to explore how Ascendance’s hybrid elec­tric VTOL can address the logis­ti­cal chal­lenges of air mobil­i­ty across the more than 7,500 islands in the area.

This agree­ment is part of a French delegation’s tour of Asia, which also includes vis­its to Japan, Sin­ga­pore, Indone­sia and Viet­nam. The LOI was signed dur­ing a bilat­er­al meet­ing between the French Min­istry of For­eign Affairs and the Philip­pine Depart­ment of Trans­porta­tion in Mani­la.

The release states, “Ascen­dance VTOL’s ver­sa­til­i­ty, from pas­sen­ger trans­port to med­ical evac­u­a­tion and car­go, offers trans­for­ma­tive solu­tions to con­nect com­mu­ni­ties.”

It con­tin­ues, “This part­ner­ship rep­re­sents a sig­nif­i­cant step in decar­bon­is­ing avi­a­tion and under­lines Ascendance’s com­mit­ment to pro­vid­ing glob­al sus­tain­able air mobil­i­ty solu­tions.”

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The hybrid-elec­tric Atea eVTOL air­craft seats four pas­sen­gers plus one pilot. Ascen­dance is tar­get­ing a range of around 250 miles and a cruise speed of 125 mph for the air­craft, which has a pay­load capac­i­ty of about 990 lbs. 

The com­pa­ny say the Atea pro­duces 75 per­cent less noise and 80 per­cent few­er car­bon emis­sions com­pared with con­ven­tion­al helicopters.Meanwhile, PhilJets has been a key play­er in the Philip­pine avi­a­tion sec­tor for over a decade, oper­at­ing pri­vate and com­mer­cial flights and sup­port­ing over 100 heli­copters through its main­te­nance sub­sidiary.

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https://www.ascendance-ft.com

(Top image: Ascen­dance ATEA)

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