Ampaire Purchases Talyn Air Innovative Technologies, Expanding Reach into Defence

U.S‑based Ampaire, a hybrid elec­tric air­craft sys­tems com­pa­ny, announced this week, it has acquired Talyn Air, a devel­op­er of inno­v­a­tive eVTOL tech­nolo­gies, reports a press release. Ampaire con­tin­ues to expand its prod­uct port­fo­lio and become more com­pet­i­tive with­in this rapid­ly devel­op­ing indus­try.

The release explains, “The trans­ac­tion will accel­er­ate Ampaire’s strat­e­gy to build and lead the elec­tri­fi­ca­tion of avi­a­tion, dri­ving fur­ther prof­itable growth by expand­ing into attrac­tive adja­cent defence, drone and eVTOL mar­kets as well as broad­en­ing its intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty and con­tracts port­fo­lio with an addi­tion­al eight patents and sev­en gov­ern­ment con­tracts with sole-source fol­low-on rights.”

It con­tin­ues, “With the acqui­si­tion of Talyn, Ampaire con­tin­ues to mul­ti­ply appli­ca­tions for its pio­neer­ing hybrid elec­tric propul­sion sys­tems, which to date have flown over 18,000 miles, the most hybrid elec­tric flight time in the indus­try, inte­grat­ed into gen­er­al avi­a­tion and region­al tur­bo­prop com­mer­cial air­craft.”

Ampaire’s Fleet of Air­craft

Kevin Noertk­er, CEO of Ampaire, com­ment­ed, “Adding Talyn to Ampaire’s already strong tech­ni­cal foun­da­tion in hybrid elec­tric propul­sion will be imme­di­ate­ly accre­tive to rev­enue growth and allow the com­pa­ny to accel­er­ate our reach into the valu­able drone and eVTOL sec­tors for both com­mer­cial and defense appli­ca­tions.”

He con­tin­ued, “Growth through acqui­si­tions of com­pa­nies and assets is a key part of our long-term strat­e­gy to become the indus­try leader in elec­tri­fied avi­a­tion. Through this expand­ed port­fo­lio of tech­nol­o­gy and pro­grams, we will be well-posi­tioned to oer cus­tomers the most expe­ri­enced hybrid elec­tric propul­sion capa­bil­i­ties in the indus­try across drones, fixed wing, and eVTOL.”

Found­ed in 2019 and based in Los Ange­les, Talyn “has demon­strat­ed advanced air­craft tech­nolo­gies in flight, pro­duced strong com­mer­cial and gov­ern­ment cus­tomer rela­tion­ships and secured strate­gi­cal­ly impor­tant con­tracts.”

Talyn’s pro­gram awards span mul­ti­ple Depart­ment of Defense groups includ­ing inno­va­tion on Group 3 to 5 UAS drones with NAVAIR Air­craft Divi­sion; rapid deploy­ment capa­bil­i­ties with the USAF 621st Con­tin­gency Response Wing; and an active AFWERX TACFI design/build/fly pro­gram under the Agili­ty Prime.

Kevin Noertk­er

Agili­ty Prime is the Air Force’s trans­for­ma­tive ver­ti­cal lift pro­gram part­ner­ing with the elec­tri­fied propul­sion and eVTOL com­mer­cial indus­try to expand tech­nol­o­gy tran­si­tion paths and accel­er­ate emerg­ing dual-use mar­kets by lever­ag­ing gov­ern­ment resources for rapid and afford­able field­ing.

Jamie Gull, co-Founder and CEO of Talyn, remarked, “We found­ed Talyn with a vision for advanc­ing avi­a­tion, trans­form­ing the way we fly and evolv­ing toward a green­er future. We are excit­ed that our tech­nol­o­gy and vision, com­bined with Ampaire’s indus­try-lead­ing solu­tions, will pro­vide game-chang­ing capa­bil­i­ties to the avi­a­tion indus­try.”

Back­ground

Ampaire was formed in 2016 with a goal to become a devel­op­er of lead­ing “prac­ti­cal and com­pelling elec­tric air­craft.” The com­pa­ny has devel­oped a plat­form of hybrid elec­tric and elec­tric propul­sion tech­nolo­gies applic­a­ble across many air­craft types. Upgrad­ing exist­ing air­craft to hybrid elec­tric pow­er is Ampaire’s “rapid, cap­i­tal effi­cient approach to mak­ing com­mer­cial elec­tric air trav­el a real­i­ty with avail­able tech­nol­o­gy.”

Ampaire has achieved a series of indus­try firsts since the 2019 maid­en flight of its Elec­tric EEL tech­nol­o­gy test­bed air­craft, includ­ing the longest flight for a hybrid elec­tric air­craft — 1,135 statute miles en-route from Los Ange­les to Oshkosh, Wis­con­sin — and the maid­en flight of its hybrid elec­tric Eco Car­a­van air­craft in 2022, the “world’s largest hybrid elec­tric plane.”

For more infor­ma­tion

www.ampaire.com

https://www.talyn.com

(Top image: Talyn Air Inno­v­a­tive Tech­nol­o­gy)