Electra’s 1,000th aircraft totals order book worth over $3 billion

Electra.aero has signed a let­ter of intent with Welo­jets for 32 elec­tric short take­off and land­ing (eSTOL) air­craft at the Nation­al Busi­ness Avi­a­tion Asso­ci­a­tion (NBAA) Busi­ness Avi­a­tion Con­ven­tion & Exhi­bi­tion (BACE) in Orlan­do, Flori­da, bring­ing Electra’s total order book to 1,000 air­craft worth over $3 bil­lion

Electra’s cus­tomers include urban and region­al air­lines, char­ter oper­a­tors, VIP trans­port, med­ical and emer­gency response trans­port, and heli­copter oper­a­tors, both estab­lished air­craft oper­a­tors as well as new entrants, while Welo­jets flies through­out Europe and the Amer­i­c­as and has a work­force in more than 20 loca­tions world­wide.

They include Bris­tow Group, flyv, EBIRD, Har­bour Air, Tail­wind Air, Ravn Alas­ka, MintAir, Everts Air Car­go, Yugo, Gold Avi­a­tion, Sky­portz, Flap­per, North­west Sea­planes, and El Azufre Resort in the US, Latin Amer­i­ca, Europe, South­east Asia, and Aus­tralia.

Electra’s plane is able to take off and land in a space the size of a soc­cer field yet cruise at 175 knots, with in-flight bat­tery recharg­ing that enables flight oper­a­tions from places pre­vi­ous­ly inac­ces­si­ble by flight includ­ing con­vert­ed park­ing lots, barges, and very short land­ing strips. The pilot­ed fixed-wing air­craft will ini­tial­ly car­ry up to nine pas­sen­gers or 2500 pounds of car­go up to 400 nau­ti­cal miles in all weath­er con­di­tions.

Elec­tra founder and CEO John Lang­ford said: “Our qui­et, ultra-short take­off and land­ing air­craft pro­vides a step change in fuel burn and oper­at­ing cost reduc­tion and opens mar­kets pre­vi­ous­ly inac­ces­si­ble to con­ven­tion­al fixed-wing air­craft.”

Welo­jets pres­i­dent Alfre­do Lis­dero added: “We plan to fly the Elec­tra eSTOL air­craft into exist­ing air­ports as well as to use it to expand our oper­a­tions into new mar­kets that can­not be served cur­rent­ly with tra­di­tion­al fixed wing air­craft. Thanks to the Elec­tra aircraft’s cost and per­for­mance advan­tages, we see many oppor­tu­ni­ties to grow our ser­vices through­out Europe and Latin Amer­i­ca.”

Last month, MintAir signed a Let­ter of Intent with Electra.aero to pur­chase 50 hybrid-elec­tric ultra-short take­off and land­ing (eSTOL) air­craft to its fleet and launch region­al air mobil­i­ty oper­a­tions for pas­sen­gers and air car­go in South Korea.

MintAir Choos­es Elec­tra for Region­al Air Mobil­i­ty Ser­vices in South Korea

In June, Electra.aero acquired Cal­i­for­nia-based Air­flow in an announce­ment made at the UP Sum­mit on 2nd June, an annu­al gath­er­ing of lead­ers in trans­porta­tion inno­va­tion host­ed by invest­ment firm UP Part­ners.

Elec­tra Acquires Air­flow to Cre­ate a Pow­er­house in Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty