AAP Aviation to develop electric regional air mobility in Norway with the Lilium Jet

In an announce­ment made dur­ing the recent Farn­bor­ough Air Show, Lil­i­um agreed with AAP Avi­a­tion Group to pur­chase 40 Lil­i­um Jets to devel­op an eVTOL net­work in Scan­di­navia and to iden­ti­fy land­ing sites, start­ing with Nor­way.

AAP Avi­a­tion and Lil­i­um plan to offer sus­tain­able trav­el mobil­i­ty to Scan­di­navia using the Lil­i­um Jet, sup­ple­ment­ing exist­ing region­al air­craft routes and ensur­ing flex­i­ble and time-sav­ing low-emis­sion trav­el between cities and com­mu­ni­ties, pend­ing author­i­ty approval of air­craft mod­els and route infra­struc­ture.

AAP Avi­a­tion CEO Espen Høi­by, said: “We have dis­rupt­ed the avi­a­tion indus­try once before and are set to do so again — the mix of water, ter­rain and moun­tains means that Nor­way is par­tic­u­lar­ly suit­ed to region­al air mobil­i­ty.

“With its ver­ti­cal take-off and land­ing capa­bil­i­ty, high speed and region­al range, the Lil­i­um Jet can achieve hours of time sav­ings com­pared with today’s trans­porta­tion. The Lil­i­um Jet per­for­mance, its low noise pro­file and its spa­cious cab­in make it the ide­al air­craft to devel­op sus­tain­able air trans­port in Scan­di­navia.”

AAP Avi­a­tion entered the mar­ket in 2013, offer­ing pro­fes­sion­al ser­vices for the avi­a­tion indus­try, includ­ing crew man­age­ment — for­mer­ly known as OSM Avi­a­tion, it quick­ly estab­lished oper­a­tions in 19 coun­tries world­wide with over 6000 employ­ees.

Lil­i­um CEO Daniel Wie­gand con­tin­ued: “Nor­way is the world’s leader in sus­tain­able prac­tices, and known to have the high­est pen­e­tra­tion of elec­tric car own­er­ship, so we are proud to team up with AAP Avi­a­tion to bring elec­tric, high-speed mobil­i­ty to Nor­way and the rest of Scan­di­navia.”

The Lil­i­um Jet is cur­rent­ly being devel­oped in Ger­many and expect­ed to hold four to six pas­sen­gers over a phys­i­cal range of 250 km.

Two weeks ago, Bris­tow took an option to pur­chase 50 Lil­i­um Jets, in addi­tion to pro­vid­ing Part 145 main­te­nance ser­vices for its launch net­work in Flori­da and future US and Euro­pean mar­kets, an agree­ment that enables Bris­tow to become an autho­rised ser­vice provider for Lil­i­um.

In late June, Lil­i­um select­ed Astron­ics Cor­po­ra­tion to design, devel­op, and build its elec­tri­cal pow­er dis­tri­b­u­tion sys­tem with sec­ondary pow­er dis­tri­b­u­tion units (SPDUs) and charg­ing pow­er dis­tri­b­u­tion units (CPDUs).

SPDUs are respon­si­ble for high volt­age con­ver­sion from (1000 VDC) to low volt­age (28 VDC), and ensure a reli­able sup­ply of pow­er to the aircraft’s flight con­trols, avion­ics, nav­i­ga­tion, com­mu­ni­ca­tion, sen­sors, inter­nal and exter­nal lights, and pas­sen­ger com­fort. The CPDU man­ages the bat­tery charg­ing oper­a­tion.