LYTE Aviation to work with Kookiejar and push forward its plans for heavy payload drone delivery operations

LYTE Avi­a­tion has estab­lished a part­ner­ship with ver­ti­port devel­op­er Kook­ie­jar, as the com­pa­ny plans to next log­i­cal steps for its heavy pay­load drone drone deliv­ery oper­a­tions.

The com­pa­ny is pio­neer­ing the world­wide first 40-seater eVTOL air­craft for point-to-point deliv­ery of pas­sen­gers, known as the Sky­Bus, and addi­tion­al­ly, as a car­go vari­ant for 4.5 ton car­go.

Sky­Bus offers a range of 620 miles (1,000 km) with a max speed of 190 mph (300 km/hr). It fea­tures a tan­dem tilt-wing design and a full-scale pro­to­type is being planned with­in 24 months, with ser­i­al pro­duc­tion to com­mence with­in five to six years. At present, no oth­er com­pa­ny is build­ing a VTOL with a 40-pas­sen­ger capac­i­ty.

Fresh­ta Farzam, CEO and founder at LYTE Avi­a­tion, said: “This will change entire indus­tries, includ­ing food and phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals. Imag­ine reduc­ing car­go deliv­ery times from nine hours on the road via truck to three hours via SkyTruck in the air.

“Addi­tion­al­ly, our cus­tomers require scal­able and mod­u­lar ver­ti­port and vertistop solu­tions, easy and quick to imple­ment. For door to door car­go deliv­er­ies, Kook­ie­Jar is the ide­al solu­tion for our SkyTruck.

“As we are the fron­trun­ners now in heavy pay­load, point-to-point, deliv­ery of pas­sen­gers and goods, we are part­ner­ing up only with the prime infra­struc­ture solu­tions on the mar­ket. Kook­ie­Jar has an amaz­ing prod­uct, vision and busi­ness approach, there­fore we are very proud to ful­fil this part­ner­ship, which is in com­plete align­ment with our 10-year strate­gies.”

Inspired by the Swedish IKEA Con­cept, Kookiejar’s mod­u­lar approach of build­ing ver­ti­ports allows cities and munic­i­pal­i­ties to cre­ate an effi­cient net­work, cou­pled with exist­ing and non-exist­ing infra­struc­ture, Kook­ie­jar inex­pen­sive solu­tions allow flex­i­bil­i­ty to deploy ver­ti­port net­work enabling air mobil­i­ty for all.

Kook­ie­jar is an Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty infra­struc­ture ser­vice provider, which spe­cialis­es in solu­tions that estab­lish­es droneports and ver­ti­port sites. With a strong focus on safe­ty and com­pli­ance, the com­pa­ny is com­mit­ted to deliv­er­ing high-qual­i­ty ser­vices that meet the strin­gent require­ments of EASA and oth­er avi­a­tion reg­u­la­to­ry bod­ies.

Michael Pet­ters­son, CEO / Kook­ie­Jar, added: “With LYTE Avi­a­tion, we get a part­ner to devel­op our infra­struc­ture for heavy-weight drone freight trans­port with long range. There is a grow­ing demand for deliv­ery of larg­er items/ goods and through this coop­er­a­tion we can improve effien­cy and reduce deliv­ery costs.”