Bye Aerospace to use Safran Electrical & Power’s ENGINeUS electric motors in its eFlyer aircraft

Bye Aero­space has signed a cor­po­ra­tion agree­ment with Safran Elec­tri­cal & Pow­er to equip its eFly­er 2 and eFly­er 4 air­craft with Safran’s ENGINeUS^TM 100 elec­tric smart motor.

The broad range of elec­tric motors, which have pow­er out­puts from sin­gle dig­it to 500 kW, deliv­ers very high per­for­mance and fea­tures a ful­ly inte­grat­ed motor con­troller with­in the machine. The ther­mal man­age­ment is pro­vid­ed by an opti­mised air-cool­ing sys­tem, joint­ly inte­grat­ed by Safran & Bye Aero­space into the air­craft struc­ture.  

Bye Aero­space is FAA-cer­ti­fy­ing the two-seat, all-elec­tric eFly­er 2 for the pro­fes­sion­al flight train­ing mis­sion, while the four-seat eFly­er 4 will be for air taxi and advanced train­ing uses.

George E. Bye, CEO of Bye Aero­space, said: “Bye Aero­space has con­clud­ed that Safran’s ENGINeUS ^TM 100 smart elec­tric motor is the opti­mal pro­duc­tion solu­tion to meet the require­ments of our rig­or­ous FAA and EASA cer­ti­fi­ca­tion sched­ules for eFly­er 2 and eFly­er 4.

“Our list of future eFly­er pur­chase agree­ments, cur­rent­ly at 711 units, con­tin­ues to grow, and we must con­tin­ue for­ward at a high-tem­po pace to meet the demands of avi­a­tion enthu­si­asts world­wide who have been wait­ing years for all-elec­tric air­planes to come to mar­ket.”

“Safran is extreme­ly proud to col­lab­o­rate with Bye Aero­space, which has devel­oped a strong vision for the future of elec­tri­cal flights, from the eFly­er 2 and eFly­er 4 to the com­muters and region­al air­planes,” added Hervé Blanc, Exec­u­tive Vice Pres­i­dent & Gen­er­al Man­ag­er of the Pow­er divi­sion at Safran Elec­tri­cal & Pow­er.

“This new con­tract demon­strates the suc­cess of our ENGINeUS™ prod­uct line and con­firms the strong inter­est of the mar­ket in our approach to fur­ther increase the elec­tric pow­er­train per­for­mance while simul­ta­ne­ous­ly pro­gress­ing the cer­ti­fi­ca­tion and pro­duc­tion sys­tem readi­ness.”

Bye Aero­space says its cur­rent and future fam­i­lies of air­craft fea­ture exem­plary engi­neer­ing, research, and elec­tric air­craft solu­tions pro­duc­ing no CO₂ and are designed to answer com­pelling mar­ket needs.

These needs include five-fold low­er oper­at­ing costs, no CO₂emis­sions, and decreased noise. Bye Aero­space esti­mates the eFly­er will elim­i­nate the release of mil­lions of met­ric tons of CO₂ each year for flight train­ing alone.