Helity Copter Airlines will purchase five Lilium jets to develop eVTOL in Andalusia

Lil­i­um has signed an agree­ment with Heli­ty Copter Air­lines to devel­op an eVTOL net­work in Andalu­sia, which will see the pur­chase of five Lil­i­um jets for pre­mi­um and busi­ness char­ter flights across the region.

Heli­ty offers heli­copter shut­tle flights between Ceu­ta, Alge­ci­ras, and Mála­ga as well as pri­vate char­ter flights in south­ern Spain, with approx­i­mate­ly 300,000 pas­sen­gers trans­port­ed to date between Ceu­ta and the Span­ish penin­su­la.

The Lil­i­um Jet, with its pre­mi­um cab­in, expect­ed phys­i­cal range of 250 km, and antic­i­pat­ed per­for­mance capa­bil­i­ties in var­i­ous weath­er con­di­tions, is well suit­ed to meet the trans­porta­tion needs of the region.

Heli­ty CEO and own­er Anto­nio Bar­ran­co said: “With its zero oper­at­ing emis­sion and low noise pro­file, the Lil­i­um Jet is a great addi­tion to our exist­ing heli­copter fleet.

“Thanks to the large and spa­cious cab­in, the air­craft is very well-suit­ed to address the pre­mi­um and busi­ness traf­fic in the region and I have no doubt that in the medi­um-term it will rev­o­lu­tionise the con­cept of short-range com­mer­cial and busi­ness avi­a­tion.”

Lil­i­um CEO Daniel Wie­gand added: “South­ern Spain attracts a high demand for pre­mi­um tourism and com­bined with Helity’s local exper­tise and expe­ri­ence in the oper­a­tion of heli­copters, as well as the hir­ing of high­ly-skilled pilots, we have ide­al con­di­tions for the devel­op­ment of a sus­tain­able air mobil­i­ty net­work in the region.”

Lil­i­um is cur­rent­ly con­duct­ing flight tests with its fifth gen­er­a­tion tech­nol­o­gy demon­stra­tor at the Atlas Flight Test Cen­ter at Vil­lacar­ril­lo in the Jaen province of Spain.

Ear­li­er this week, Lil­i­um announced a strate­gic part­ner­ship with Bris­tow to pur­chase 50 jets, in addi­tion to pro­vid­ing Part 145 main­te­nance ser­vices for the Lil­i­um Jet’s launch net­work in Flori­da and oth­er future US and Euro­pean mar­kets.

Last month, Lil­i­um select­ed Astron­ics Cor­po­ra­tion to design, devel­op, and build its sec­ondary pow­er dis­tri­b­u­tion units (SPDUs) and charg­ing pow­er dis­tri­b­u­tion units (CPDUs).