PAS 2025: Dovetail, Hartzell Collaborate “to Power the Future of Zero-Emission Regional Flight”

Dove­tail Elec­tric Avi­a­tion and Hartzell Pro­peller, a leader in advanced air­craft pro­peller sys­tems, announced this week at the Paris Air­show (PAS), a col­lab­o­ra­tion “to pow­er the future of zero-emis­sion region­al flight,” reports a press release.

The two com­pa­nies aim to inte­grate Hartzell’s pro­pellers and Pitch Con­trol Unit (PCU) into Dovetail’s pro­pri­etary Elec­tric Propul­sion Sys­tem (EPS), known as ‘Dove­Pow­er’. 

The part­ner­ship com­bines Hartzell’s more than 100 year lega­cy of inno­va­tion and cer­ti­fi­ca­tion in pro­peller tech­nol­o­gy with Dovetail’s devel­op­ment of zero-emis­sion propul­sion solu­tions. 

The goal is to deliv­er high-per­for­mance, cer­ti­fi­able sys­tems, tai­lored to CS-23 cat­e­go­ry air­craft requir­ing over 500 kW of pow­er, includ­ing Dovetail’s first full elec­tric con­ver­sion of the Cess­na Car­a­van. 

“Hartzell’s pro­peller and PCU are set to become a core com­po­nent of Dove­Pow­er,” explains the release, “enabling pre­cise thrust and con­trol for high-pow­ered elec­tric air­craft.” Inte­grat­ed tri­als with Hartzell’s com­po­nents are sched­uled for the sec­ond half of this year. 

Dove­tail’s ‘Dove­Pow­er’ Elec­tric Propul­sion Sys­tem

The joint sys­tem will pow­er Dovetail’s first elec­tric Car­a­van pro­to­type, to be test­ed as a ful­ly inte­grat­ed plat­form in Spain under the Sci­ence and Inno­va­tion Mis­sions Pro­gram, an aero­space R&D ini­tia­tive led by Clean Ener­gy Cat­a­lyst Tech­nol­o­gy (CDTi) and sup­port­ed by NextGen­er­a­tionEU funds. 

David Doral, CEO of Dove­tail, com­ment­ed, “For our mis­sion to make region­al air trav­el sus­tain­able and even­tu­al­ly ful­ly elec­tric, the sup­port from key air­craft tech­nol­o­gy play­ers like Hartzell, rep­re­sents a big boost and a guar­an­tee of suc­cess in this endeav­our.” 

The col­lab­o­ra­tion under­scores the grow­ing momen­tum behind elec­tri­fi­ca­tion in region­al avi­a­tion and high­lights the impor­tance of close inte­gra­tion between estab­lished OEMs and new play­ers in build­ing the next gen­er­a­tion of clean, cer­ti­fi­able propul­sion tech­nolo­gies. 

JJ Frigge, Pres­i­dent of Hartzell, added, “By com­bin­ing our exper­tise in high-per­for­mance pro­peller sys­tems and light­weight, car­bon fibre com­pos­ite pro­pellers with Dovetail’s ground­break­ing propul­sion tech­nolo­gies, we’re help­ing to rede­fine what’s pos­si­ble in region­al avi­a­tion with­out com­pro­mis­ing per­for­mance or safe­ty.”

For more infor­ma­tion

www.dovetail.aero

hartzellprop.com

(Top image: David Doral, J.J Frigge along­side oth­er Dovetail/Hartzell Mem­bers sign­ing the agree­ment)

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