AutoFlight launches in U.S with two senior aviation industry-leading appointments 

Aut­oFlight, the Chi­nese glob­al eVTOL com­pa­ny, announced today the open­ing of its first U.S office at Napa Coun­ty air­port in Cal­i­for­nia, reports a press release.

This expan­sion is sup­port­ed by the hir­ing of two senior indus­try vet­er­ans. Omer Bay-Yohay (co-Founder and for­mer CEO of Evi­a­tion Air­craft) becomes AutoFlight’s Pres­i­dent, while Chad Cashin (for­mer­ly lead­ing Busi­ness Devel­op­ment at Joby Avi­a­tion) assumes the role of CCO (Chief Com­mer­cial Offi­cer).

One of the team’s first tasks is to achieve a suc­cess­ful tran­si­tion flight of its air taxi, dubbed Pros­per­i­ty I, over U.S soil, which it aims to achieve in the months ahead.

Omer Bay-Yohay, com­ment­ed, “Our name is syn­ony­mous with sim­plic­i­ty, safe­ty and get­ting things done. I’m delight­ed to be join­ing this fan­tas­tic team. Chad and I have been wel­comed with open arms and we’re excit­ed to sup­port our new col­leagues on their inspir­ing jour­ney to unlock the skies for mass indi­vid­ual trans­port by cre­at­ing safe, effi­cient, eVTOL air­craft that make eco­nom­ic sense too.”

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In June, Aut­oFlight released a video of Pros­per­i­ty 1 fea­tur­ing a new design with upgrad­ed lift & cruise con­fig­u­ra­tion, opti­mised lift­ing pro­pellers, and enhanced hov­er and cruise per­for­mance.

The eVTOL Air­craft is designed for short trans­fers between areas of a city, air­port com­mutes, con­nect­ing two near­by cities or enabling trips to the coun­try­side, while avoid­ing traf­fic on the ground. When ready for com­mer­cial flight in 2025, it is expect­ed that a trip that could take hours by car will be reduced to around 10 min­utes, with­out being any less safe or more expen­sive than a road taxi ride.

Aut­oFlight has suc­cess­ful­ly com­plet­ed over a hun­dred full tran­si­tion flights of its air­crafts in 2022 and is well on route to con­tin­ue expand­ing the flight enve­lope and matur­ing its Euro­pean Union Avi­a­tion Safe­ty Agency (EASA) cer­ti­fi­ca­tion pro­gram.

Chad Cashin and Omer Bay-Yohay

AutoFlight’s US expan­sion is the lat­est in a list of mile­stones for the eVTOL inno­va­tor that also includes the estab­lish­ment of a Euro­pean base in Augs­burg, Ger­many, the appoint­ment of Mark Hen­ning (for­mer­ly of Air­bus) as its Euro­pean Man­ag­ing Direc­tor, as well as USD100 mil­lion invest­ment from next-gen­er­a­tion mobil­i­ty investor, Team Glob­al.

Back­ground

Aut­oFlight uses its expe­ri­ence with arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence, 5G, break­through mate­ri­als and advanced man­u­fac­tur­ing in the drone mar­ket to dri­ve devel­op­ments in the eVTOL indus­try. The com­pa­ny has a diver­si­fied eVTOL prod­uct mix, focus­ing on large-scale logis­tics air­craft and pas­sen­ger aer­i­al vehi­cles.    

For more infor­ma­tion

https://www.autoflight.com/en/

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