“Horizon Aircraft Presently Constructing Full-Scale Aircraft For Trialling in 18 Months” 

Hori­zon Air­craft, a devel­op­er of one of the world’s first hybrid eVTOLs, is present­ly con­struct­ing a full-scale air­craft for ini­tial tri­alling in 18 months time, reports a press release.

Through­out the first half of 2025, its tech­ni­cal team has achieved sev­er­al impor­tant mile­stones which val­i­date this hybrid con­cept. 

: Tran­si­tion Flight - Hori­zon com­plet­ed one of the world’s first ever suc­cess­ful fan-in-wing for­ward tran­si­tion flights in May with its large-scale pro­to­type air­craft.

: Full-Scale Pro­to­type - Hori­zon is now build­ing a full-scale air­craft and intends to have an air­craft ready for ini­tial test­ing in 18 months.

: Plat­form Lev­el Archi­tec­ture - Hori­zon com­plet­ed archi­tec­ture devel­op­ment for the full-scale, non-con­form­ing pro­to­type.

: Propul­sion Tech­nol­o­gy - Main wing propul­sion units that pow­er the unique and patent­ed HOVR Wing tech­nol­o­gy have been fab­ri­cat­ed and are under­go­ing active test­ing and iter­a­tion.

: Sim­u­la­tion — The tech­ni­cal team con­tin­ues to devel­op its sophis­ti­cat­ed sim­u­la­tion envi­ron­ment that was instru­men­tal in accel­er­at­ing the devel­op­ment of the large-scale air­craft that recent­ly suc­cess­ful­ly tran­si­tioned to for­ward flight. 

: Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion - With plans to cer­ti­fy the air­craft for fly­ing under Instru­ment Flight Rules (IFR) and for Flight Into Known Icing (FIKI), Hori­zon has already spo­ken with Trans­port Cana­da Civ­il Avi­a­tion (TCCA) and is work­ing with tech­ni­cal experts in Cana­da to make this a pos­si­bil­i­ty.

: Tech­ni­cal Team – Hori­zon increased its team of senior design­ers and engi­neers by near­ly 50% in 2025 through the addi­tion of very accom­plished per­son­nel, many of whom are recog­nis­able in their field of exper­tise.

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Bran­don Robin­son, CEO, com­ment­ed, ”This has already been an incred­i­ble year for the tech­ni­cal team, and we’re not done yet. A his­toric full tran­si­tion to for­ward flight of the large-scale pro­to­type; con­struc­tion and test­ing of many full-scale under­pin­ning tech­nolo­gies; and mat­u­ra­tion of our many pro­fes­sion­al aero­space process­es has been suc­cess­ful­ly achieved.”

Adding, “Now our team’s focus is on the design of the full-scale air­craft, which we expect to com­plete with­in 18 months.”

For more infor­ma­tion

www.horizonaircraft.com 

(Top image: Hori­zon’s Cavorite X7 Air­craft)

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