GALLERY: HORTEN Aircraft Launches Development Program of its NG2 Flying Wing Aircraft as it Targets New Investment

Ger­man-based HORTEN Air­craft says it is ready to launch the devel­op­ment pro­gram of its HORTEN NG2 – an inno­v­a­tive fly­ing wing air­craft, which is becom­ing fea­si­ble in a rel­e­vant mar­ket seg­ment for the first time thanks to the new MOSAIC reg­u­la­tion.

Based in Eise­nach, locat­ed about 150km north­east of Frank­furt, the com­pa­ny is mov­ing for­ward based on the indus­try’s con­tin­ued momen­tum fol­low­ing the FAA’s recent­ly ren­act­ed MOSAIC reg­u­la­tion in the USA and has a clear mis­sion: to bring fly­ing wings to Gen­er­al Avi­a­tion.

HORTEN is tar­get­ing investors and strate­gic part­ners with an inter­na­tion­al cam­paign. The aim is to raise glob­al aware­ness of the program’s poten­tial and inno­v­a­tive strength, and to specif­i­cal­ly reach out to those eager to shape the future of Gen­er­al Avi­a­tion.

Dr. Hanns-Wal­ter Schulz, Man­ag­ing Direc­tor, Strat­e­gy & Oper­a­tions, HORTEN Air­craft GmbH, said: “We’ve spent years care­ful­ly plan­ning every detail – from mar­ket analy­sis to prod­uct def­i­n­i­tion, from engi­neer­ing to pro­duc­tion. This is not just an idea – it is a clear­ly struc­tured path to suc­cess.

“Now is the right time to take the step into series devel­op­ment togeth­er with strong part­ners”

Build­ing on its his­tor­i­cal coop­er­a­tion with Reimar Hort­en and decades of expe­ri­ence in the field of fly­ing wing tech­nol­o­gy, HORTEN has demon­strat­ed tech­ni­cal fea­si­bil­i­ty with the suc­cess­ful HX‑2 demon­stra­tor. With the NG2, HORTEN aims to estab­lish itself as a new pre­mi­um play­er in Gen­er­al Avi­a­tion, dri­ven by true Ger­man engi­neer­ing.

Reg­u­la­tion as an Enabler

It is only the recent­ly enact­ed MOSAIC reg­u­la­tion in the USA that cre­ates the con­di­tions for an air­craft as advanced as the HORTEN NG2 with con­vinc­ing per­for­mance, advanced fea­ture­sand pre­mi­um com­fort to be approved in an attrac­tive mar­ket seg­ment of Gen­er­al Avi­a­tion.

With this in mind, HORTEN says it is seiz­ing this mar­ket oppor­tu­ni­ty, lever­ag­ing decades of fly­ing wing exper­tise to devel­op the NG2. The abbre­vi­a­tion “NG” stands for ‘Next Gen­er­a­tion’ and marks the tech­no­log­i­cal leap in the long his­to­ry of fly­ing wings, which is so close­ly asso­ci­at­ed with the name Hort­en.

Tech­no­log­i­cal Progress Based on Proven Expe­ri­ence

The devel­op­ment of the HORTEN NG2 builds direct­ly on the suc­cess­ful HX‑2 demon­stra­tor. The data gath­ered dur­ing HX‑2’s flight test­ing enabled HORTEN to sig­nif­i­cant­ly reduce key tech­ni­cal risks even before launch­ing the NG2 pro­gram.

Dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion & Mar­ket Poten­tial

With its fly­ing wing con­fig­u­ra­tion, HORTEN is set­ting new stan­dards in the Gen­er­al Avi­a­tion two-seater seg­ment and tar­gets a rapid­ly grow­ing inter­na­tion­al mar­ket.

The NG2 is designed as the “Grand Touris­mo of the skies”: the unique con­fig­u­ra­tion ensures an unmis­tak­able appear­ance, while the spa­cious cab­in and advanced fea­tures meet the high­est stan­dards of com­fort and func­tion­al­i­ty.