LYTE Aviation confirms 10 more pre orders of its 40-seater eVTOL LA-44 X Prime by Ghenus Air, for regional routes in Korea and the USA

LYTE Avi­a­tion has received 10 more pre orders from Ghenus Air for its LA-44 air­craft, which will be deliv­ered with­in five to six years for their US & Kore­an mar­kets

This order adds to fur­ther air­craft pre-orders Ghenus Air has already placed with PLANA and Odys Avi­a­tion. Ghenus has also placed a 20-strong order from Tra­verse Aero.

With LYTE’s LA-44 Sky­Bus and its car­go vari­ant, the SkyTruck, Ghenus is expand­ing its door-to-door mar­ket for cor­po­rate exec­u­tives, fam­i­lies, busi­ness­es and small group tours.

It fol­lows on from LYTE mak­ing a sim­i­lar part­ner­ship with Vman Avi­a­tion Ser­vices and Kook­ie­jar of Swe­den.

Fresh­ta Farzam, CEO and Founder of LYTE Avi­a­tion, said: “This pre-order comes at a great tim­ing for us, as we are expand­ing our port­fo­lio from not only dis­rupt­ing mass tran­sit with our 40-seater point-to-point eVTOL, the Sky­Bus, then the logis­tics indus­try with our SkyTruck (4.5 ton car­go), but now with the huge demand in busi­ness avi­a­tion to intro­duce also our 19-seater LA-44 X Prime ver­sion.

LYTE Avi­a­tion is devel­op­ing a 40-seater eVTOL air­craft for urban and region­al mobil­i­ty. They offer so far the pas­sen­ger ver­sion, the Sky­Bus and its car­go vari­ant, the SkyTruck which has a 4.5‑tonne pay­load capa­bil­i­ty.

Sky­Bus offers a range of 620 miles (1,000 km) with a max speed of 190 mph (300 km/hr). The LA-44 has a tan­dem tilt-wing design, with a full-scale pro­to­type being planned with­in 24 months and ser­i­al pro­duc­tion with­in five to six years.
 
Com­ment­ing on this part­ner­ship, Joseph Kim, CEO of Ghenus Air, said: “We see high poten­tial in the Kore­an and US RAM mar­ket. In the Unit­ed States, there is ample mar­ketabil­i­ty for region­al air ser­vice util­is­ing under­utilised region­al air­ports.

And since Korea is pur­su­ing a hydro­gen econ­o­my, the use of hydro­gen-based Sky­bus and Skytruck is expect­ed to not only be sym­bol­ic, but also make a sig­nif­i­cant con­tri­bu­tion to improv­ing the prof­itabil­i­ty of local air­ports that are suf­fer­ing huge loss­es.”

Kim added: “We are cur­rent­ly design­ing the inte­ri­ors of our prime ver­sion, vary­ing from large meet­ing rooms in the sky that will take off right at your corporate’s door step, no run­ways required any­more, up to spa­cious solu­tions for fam­i­lies for a flight dura­tion of two to three hours, tak­ing off right at their home doorsteps.”

“In this regard, we are deeply grate­ful that we have the great oppor­tu­ni­ty of pur­chas­ing Lyte Aviation’s hybrid-hydro­gen Sky­Bus, SkyTruck and their LA-44 X Prime ver­sion and to estab­lish new routes between exist­ing region­al air­ports and new ver­ti­ports.”