magniX Announces LOI with Harbour Air for 50 magni650 Electric Engines

mag­niX, has signed a Let­ter of Intent (LOI) with North America’s largest sea­plane air­line, for the pur­chase of 50 magni650 elec­tric engines, reports a press release. 

The company’s elec­tric propul­sion units (EPUs) are to be used to elec­tri­fy Har­bour Air’s fleet, begin­ning with the De Hav­il­land DHC‑2 Beaver in 2026. The magni650s will also be used for third-par­ty con­ver­sions.

The release states, “In Decem­ber 2019, the two com­pa­nies made his­to­ry when the eBeaver, a Har­bour Air De Hav­il­land DHC‑2 Beaver retro­fit­ted with a mag­niX elec­tric engine, became the world’s first ful­ly elec­tric com­mer­cial air­craft to take flight. To date, the pro­to­type eBeaver has flown 78 flights in prepa­ra­tion for the cer­ti­fi­ca­tion of the air­craft.”

Along­side the eBeaver, oth­er exam­ples include Eviation’s all-elec­tric com­muter air­plane, Alice, and the world’s largest hydro­gen-elec­tric air­craft, Uni­ver­sal Hydrogen’s retro­fit­ted De Hav­il­land Dash 8.

Riona Arme­smith

Riona Arme­smith, CTO of mag­niX, com­ment­ed, “Elec­tri­fy­ing Har­bour Air’s fleet with magniX’s engines sets us on a course to define the future of region­al flight. The many flights that the eBeaver has now com­plet­ed with our tech­nol­o­gy demon­strate that the elec­tric age of avi­a­tion is here and bring­ing it to the mar­ket­place is grow­ing rapid­ly clos­er.”

Bert van der Stege, CEO of Har­bour Air, added, “The agree­ment with mag­niX under­scores our com­mit­ment to rev­o­lu­tionise com­mer­cial avi­a­tion with elec­tric propul­sion and to pave the way for clean­er, qui­eter and more effi­cient air trav­el.”

Back­ground

With its U.S HQ in Everett, Wash­ing­ton State, mag­niX has devel­oped a fam­i­ly of elec­tric propul­sion units (EPUs) and ener­gy stor­age sys­tems (ESS) for com­mer­cial avi­a­tion. The com­pa­ny is a sub­sidiary of the Cler­mont Group, an inter­na­tion­al con­glom­er­ate head­quar­tered in Sin­ga­pore.

Har­bour Air was found­ed in 1982 with just two sea­planes. Today, it has a fleet of 45 air­craft and offers up to 300 dai­ly sched­uled flights, scenic tours, adven­ture pack­ages and pri­vate flights. With 12 sched­uled des­ti­na­tions the com­pa­ny trans­ports around 500,000 pas­sen­gers every year.

For more infor­ma­tion

www.magnix.aero

www.harbourair.com

(Top image: Har­bour Air Twin Otter Sea­plane)

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