Ascendance Flight Technologies Announces Leading Technical Collaborations, New Purchasing Intentions

France-based Ascen­dance Flight Tech­nolo­gies (AFT), has announced this week tech­ni­cal col­lab­o­ra­tion agree­ments with major play­ers in the aero­nau­tics indus­try for the devel­op­ment of its two solu­tions: The ATEA Air­craft and STERNA, a mod­u­lar hybrid propul­sion tech­nol­o­gy.

The com­pa­ny also announced it has signed 110 new Let­ters of Intent (LOI) to pur­chase with two future clients: Green Aerolease and a soon to be announced oper­a­tor, bring­ing its order book to 505 poten­tial pur­chas­es from inter­na­tion­al oper­a­tors.

The inno­v­a­tive design and mar­ket­ing of its hybrid-pow­ered eVTOL air­craft such as the ATEA rep­re­sents a real tech­no­log­i­cal chal­lenge. There­fore, the com­pa­ny has assem­bled the best tech­no­log­i­cal part­ners with exper­tise in the man­u­fac­ture of aerostruc­ture, com­pos­ite mate­ri­als and bat­ter­ies for the air­craft pro­to­type.

The major tech­ni­cal part­ner­ship agree­ments signed with AFT include:-

: Solvay and Air­borne will be work­ing togeth­er to devel­op the pro­to­type air­craft’s aerostruc­ture and pre­pare the required mate­ri­als. Solvay has sig­nif­i­cant expe­ri­ence in the devel­op­ment of inno­v­a­tive light­weight com­pos­ite mate­ri­als based on resins and poly­mers to cre­ate effi­cient, lighter and more sus­tain­able air­craft.

: Air­borne spe­cialis­es in the design and pro­duc­tion of com­pos­ite struc­tures, tool­ing and indus­tri­al­i­sa­tion solu­tions.

These three impor­tant part­ner­ships are launch­ing the pro­duc­tion phase of Ascendance’s life size pro­to­type, sched­uled to fly in 2024. Those pro­duc­tion, assem­bly and flight test activ­i­ties will sup­port the indus­tri­al­i­sa­tion of Ascendance’s ser­i­al air­craft, which is sched­uled to enter into ser­vice in 2027.

Jean-Christophe Lam­bert

Jean-Christophe Lam­bert, co-Founder and CEO of AFT, com­ment­ed, “These new tech­ni­cal and busi­ness part­ner­ships are a fan­tas­tic boost to the design, indus­tri­al­i­sa­tion and sales of our air­craft ATEA. We are pro­gress­ing rapid­ly and suc­cess­ful­ly towards our objec­tive to reduce the envi­ron­men­tal impact of avi­a­tion and to make Ascen­dance Flight Tech­nolo­gies a sig­nif­i­cant play­er in the ener­gy tran­si­tion.”

AFT has already reg­is­tered 505 pur­chase inten­tions, includ­ing 260 new LOI’s to pur­chase its eVTOL ATEA with two future cus­tomers Green Aerolease and a soon to be announced oper­a­tor.

Ascendance’s air­craft has also per­suad­ed Amedeo, a lead­ing Air­craft Lessor, to sign a LOI Let­ter of Intent (includ­ed in the total above).

These pre-orders con­firm AFT’s ambi­tion of fly­ing across three con­ti­nents via:-

: Heli­first, Jet Sys­tems Heli­copter Ser­vices, Green Aerolease (France)

: EvFly, Yugo (Sin­ga­pore)

: Philjets Group (Philip­pines)

: Fly­share (USA/California)

: Amedeo (Ire­land)

A part­ner­ship has also been set up with Sig­ma Air Mobil­i­ty (a Lux­avi­a­tion affil­i­ate) to devel­op net­works of eVTOL routes to cov­er region­al dis­tances and launch Decen­tralised Avi­a­tion by con­nect­ing region­al cities and com­mu­ni­ties with less access than the major cap­i­tals on spe­cif­ic elect­ed region.

The com­pa­ny has also signed a col­lab­o­ra­tion agree­ment with Lat­vian air­line, air­Baltic, to exam­ine and inte­grate eVTOL air­craft such as ATEA into the air­line’s future oper­a­tions.

For more infor­ma­tion

www.ascendance-ft.com

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