Ambitious Air Mobility Group confirms order for up to 50 of LODD Autonomous’ Hili hybrid VTOL aircraft

Ambi­tious Air Mobil­i­ty Group (AAMG) has signed an agree­ment with LODD Autonomous, which estab­lish­es a frame­work for the devel­op­ment, deploy­ment and poten­tial acqui­si­tion of up to 50 of LOD­D’s Hili hybrid VTOL car­go air­craft.

Under the agree­ment, the par­ties will col­lab­o­rate on the par­tic­i­pa­tion in exper­i­men­tal oper­a­tions, a fleet roadmap plan­ning and logis­tics deploy­ment, joint mar­ket devel­op­ment across Europe and the Mid­dle East and inte­gra­tion with­in AAMG’s expand­ing ver­ti­port and route net­work.

The air­craft will be a 50:50 split, with 25 air­craft for Euro­pean oper­a­tions and 25 for UAE and Mid­dle East deploy­ment, sub­ject to suc­cess­ful exper­i­men­tal oper­a­tions and com­mer­cial val­i­da­tion.

Robert Kamp, CEO of Ambi­tious Air Mobil­i­ty Group, said: “This agree­ment aligns air­craft capa­bil­i­ty with infra­struc­ture readi­ness. Hili presents a strong hybrid car­go solu­tion, and we look for­ward to sup­port­ing its oper­a­tional val­i­da­tion while prepar­ing scal­able deploy­ment across our net­work.”

LODD is devel­op­ing the Hili Car­go UAS, a hybrid ver­ti­cal take-off and land­ing (VTOL) plat­form designed to car­ry pay­loads of up to 250 kg over ranges of up to 700 km.

The plat­form is being devel­oped for scal­able mid­dle-mile and hub-to-hub car­go oper­a­tions. Exper­i­men­tal oper­a­tional tri­als are planned for between Q4 2026– Q4 2027.

The col­lab­o­ra­tion will also explore advanced mate­ri­als, com­pos­ite opti­mi­sa­tion and pro­duc­tion effi­cien­cies, along­side poten­tial appli­ca­tion of LODD’s auton­o­my soft­ware archi­tec­ture across select­ed air­craft pro­grammes with­in the AAMG port­fo­lio.

Rashid Mat­tar Almanai, CEO of LODD, added: “AAMG brings infra­struc­ture vision and access to key mar­kets. This col­lab­o­ra­tion enables us to align devel­op­ment mile­stones with real-world deploy­ment path­ways.”

Ambi­tious Air Mobil­i­ty Group – NL Hold­ing N.V. is a Euro­pean indus­tri­al and invest­ment hold­ing com­pa­ny focused on accel­er­at­ing the sus­tain­able trans­for­ma­tion of avi­a­tion through hybrid-elec­tric air­craft, defence mobil­i­ty sys­tems and ver­ti­ports sup­port­ed by off-grid ener­gy infra­struc­ture.

In Novem­ber 2025, the com­pa­ny invest­ed in Czech start­up ZURI with an announce­ment at the time say­ing both com­pa­nies signed terms to advance the devel­op­ment, cer­ti­fi­ca­tion and deploy­ment of ZURI’s hybrid-eVTOL air­craft plat­form for pas­sen­ger, car­go and defence appli­ca­tions.

The invest­ment also sup­port­ed unmanned and option­al­ly pilot­ed vari­ants devel­oped for car­go and defence oper­a­tions.

LODD is an autonomous aero­space com­pa­ny head­quar­tered in Abu Dhabi, pio­neer­ing the future of car­go trans­porta­tion. Found­ed in 2023, LODD designs, devel­ops, and deploys next-gen­er­a­tion autonomous sys­tems to tack­le the emerg­ing chal­lenges of mid­dle-mile car­go logis­tics.