North Aircraft Industries to Manufacture the Wings of Horizon Aircraft’s hybrid-electric Cavorite X7

Hori­zon Air­craft has part­nered with North Air­craft Indus­tries to man­u­fac­ture and test the cus­tom-engi­neered wings for the Company’s full-scale VTOL air­craft, the Cavorite X7.

North Air­craft Indus­tries is glob­al­ly rec­og­nized for its exper­tise in com­plex aero­space com­pos­ite engi­neer­ing, man­u­fac­tur­ing, and test­ing.

Its high­ly skilled engi­neer­ing and pro­duc­tion teams and indus­try-lead­ing tech­nolo­gies deliv­er light­weight, high-strength air­craft com­po­nents that enable faster, longer-range, and more effi­cient flight.

Fur­ther dif­fer­en­ti­at­ed for its in-house struc­tur­al test­ing capa­bil­i­ties, North Air­craft Indus­tries will con­duct wing struc­tur­al test­ing upon man­u­fac­tur­ing com­ple­tion.

Joost List, CEO of North Air­craft Indus­tries, said: “The Cavorite X7’s design rep­re­sents a gen­uine­ly new approach to VTOL air­craft per­for­mance and oper­a­tional flex­i­bil­i­ty. It aligns per­fect­ly with our strengths in advanced com­pos­ite struc­tures and inte­grat­ed aero­space com­po­nent devel­op­ment.

“We con­sid­er it a priv­i­lege to col­lab­o­rate on a crit­i­cal pri­ma­ry struc­ture such as the wing, con­tribut­ing our engi­neer­ing, man­u­fac­tur­ing, and test­ing exper­tise to help bring this ground­break­ing air­craft clos­er to flight.”

The Cavorite X7’s nov­el wing archi­tec­ture enables ver­ti­cal take­off and land­ing by open­ing wing cov­ers to reveal 12 embed­ded elec­tric lift fans. In for­ward flight, the cov­ers close seam­less­ly, trans­form­ing the air­craft into an effi­cient, fixed-wing air­craft.

Hori­zon Air­craft Co-Founder and CEO Bran­don Robin­son, added: “Build­ing our pro­pri­etary wing demands an excep­tion­al com­pos­ite man­u­fac­tur­ing team with deep expe­ri­ence in com­plex struc­tures. North Air­craft Indus­tries has the expe­ri­ence, skill, and agili­ty to keep our pro­duc­tion of the Cavorite X7 on track.

“We are proud to part­ner once again with a lead­ing Cana­di­an aero­space com­pa­ny that will play a crit­i­cal role in com­plet­ing the X7 and pre­pare it for test­ing in 2027.”

This lat­est part­ner­ship with North Air­craft Indus­tries adds to the grow­ing list of sup­pli­ers which Hori­zon Air­craft has now signed agree­ments with. It includes a recent announce­ment with RAMPF Com­pos­ite Solu­tions at the end of Jan­u­ary, which will build the Cavorite X7’s fuse­lage.

Addi­tion­al­ly, Hori­zon Air­craft con­firmed it had select­ed Pratt & Whit­ney’s PT6A engine for its full-scale mod­el. in Octo­ber 2025.