Middle East: Falcon Aviation Services selects AutoFlight’s eVTOL aircraft for use by Abu Dhabi National Oil Company

Fal­con Avi­a­tion Ser­vices has signed a 50-strong order for eVTOL air­craft from Aut­oFlight, with the first batch to be deliv­ered by Q4 2025 and used to pro­vide ser­vices to the Abu Dhabi Nation­al Oil Com­pa­ny (ADNOC).

As a strate­gic part­ner of the UAE gov­ern­ment in Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty (AAM), Fal­con Avi­a­tion Ser­vices plays a key role in devel­op­ing future avi­a­tion projects, such as the Abu Dhabi Hybrid Ver­ti­cal Land­ing ver­ti­port net­work, demon­strat­ing its com­mit­ment to sup­port­ing the UAE’s vision for a sus­tain­able and future-ready avi­a­tion ecosys­tem.

The order includes 15 V2000CG Car­ryAll car­go air­craft and 35 V2000EM Pros­per­i­ty pas­sen­ger air­craft

The V2000CG Car­ryAll car­go air­craft will be the first to be deliv­ered, sup­port­ing mis­sions such as trans­port­ing emer­gency sup­plies, pro­vid­ing time­ly resup­ply, and deliv­er­ing equip­ment parts and tools between oil extrac­tion sites and logis­tics cen­ters.

Fal­con Avi­a­tion Ser­vices CEO Cap­tain Raman Oberoi said: “Fal­con Avi­a­tion Ser­vices is always at the fore­front of inno­va­tion and com­mit­ted to sup­port­ing the UAE’s Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty ini­tia­tives. We are ded­i­cat­ed to pro­vid­ing more effi­cient and sus­tain­able trav­el and car­go solu­tions.

“Our strate­gic part­ner­ship with Aut­oFlight, backed by their sub­stan­tial tech­no­log­i­cal exper­tise and tan­gi­ble advance­ments in eVTOL air­wor­thi­ness, rep­re­sents a sig­nif­i­cant mile­stone.

“The estab­lished deliv­ery time­line will be instru­men­tal in accel­er­at­ing the adop­tion of low-alti­tude air mobil­i­ty, fos­ter­ing a rev­o­lu­tion in region­al trans­porta­tion, and rein­forc­ing Falcon’s lead­er­ship in pio­neer­ing the future of avi­a­tion, includ­ing with­in the ener­gy indus­try.”

The col­lab­o­ra­tion between Fal­con Avi­a­tion Ser­vices and Aut­oFlight opens sig­nif­i­cant mar­ket oppor­tu­ni­ties for Aut­oFlight with­in the Mid­dle East’s ener­gy sec­tor.

As the world’s first ton-class or larg­er eVTOL to obtain all three major air­wor­thi­ness cer­tifi­cates, Aut­oFlight has pre­vi­ous­ly part­nered with CNOOC and CITIC Off­shore Heli­copter to com­plete the world’s first off­shore oil plat­form flight using V2000CG Car­ryAll — a ton-class+ eVTOL.

The V2000EM Pros­per­i­ty pas­sen­ger air­craft is cur­rent­ly under­go­ing ver­i­fi­ca­tion tests and leads the indus­try in com­fort, safe­ty, and range. Once it receives air­wor­thi­ness cer­ti­fi­ca­tion, the air­craft will sup­port com­mut­ing and inter-base busi­ness trav­el for oil plat­form per­son­nel, enhanc­ing both oper­a­tional effi­cien­cy and safe­ty.

Fal­con Avi­a­tion Ser­vices is an Emi­rati com­pa­ny and one of the lead­ing busi­ness avi­a­tion oper­a­tors in the Mid­dle East and Africa. The com­pa­ny offers com­pre­hen­sive avi­a­tion solu­tions, includ­ing VIP and char­ter oper­a­tions, Heli-tours, oil and gas sup­port, air­craft man­age­ment, Main­te­nance, Repair, and Over­haul (MRO), Con­tin­u­ing Air­wor­thi­ness Man­age­ment Orga­ni­za­tion (CAMO) ser­vices, and heli­port man­age­ment.

Its Heli-tour sight­see­ing oper­a­tions alone wel­come around 70,000 pas­sen­gers annu­al­ly across Dubai and Abu Dhabi, high­light­ing its lead­er­ship in region­al busi­ness and leisure avi­a­tion.

The com­pa­ny also oper­ates a ded­i­cat­ed heli­copter fleet sup­port­ing oil and gas trans­port mis­sions in the UAE and Kuwait and serves as the pri­ma­ry avi­a­tion ser­vices provider for ADNOC’s off­shore oper­a­tions and Kuwait Oil Com­pa­ny (KOC).

As one of the world’s largest oil and gas pro­duc­ers, ADNOC is whol­ly owned by the Gov­ern­ment of the Emi­rate of Abu Dhabi and was ranked 128th in the 2024 Glob­al Brand Val­ue 500 report.