PAS 2025: Lockheed Martin, Electra Aero Sign MOU, Deepen Partnership “to Accelerate EL9 Ultra-STOL Commercialisation”

Lock­heed Mar­tin Skunk Works and Electra.aero, signed a Mem­o­ran­dum of Under­stand­ing (MOU) to explore oppor­tu­ni­ties for Electra’s EL9 ultra-short take­off and land­ing (Ultra-STOL) air­craft, reports a press release.

Lock­heed Mar­tin, a glob­al defence tech­nol­o­gy com­pa­ny, is to col­lab­o­rate with Elec­tra to explore ways to accel­er­ate the devel­op­ment of the EL9 in areas such as dig­i­tal engi­neer­ing, man­u­fac­tur­ing, sup­ply chain, sus­tain­ment and glob­al busi­ness devel­op­ment.

Addi­tion­al­ly, the two par­ties will assess oppor­tu­ni­ties for poten­tial pro­grams of record with the U.S Depart­ment of Defence (DOD), as well as glob­al cus­tomers.

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Marc Allen, CEO of Elec­tra, com­ment­ed, “Lock­heed Martin’s breadth of man­u­fac­tur­ing, sup­ply chain and mil­i­tary cus­tomer exper­tise, is the per­fect com­ple­ment to our EL9 com­mer­cial­i­sa­tion strat­e­gy.” Adding, “This rela­tion­ship will accel­er­ate our speed to mar­ket and bring the EL9’s trans­for­ma­tive capa­bil­i­ties to mil­i­tary cus­tomers.”  

The release says, “The Ultra-STOL EL9 can qui­et­ly take off and land in 150 ft and from unim­proved sur­faces, enabling oper­a­tions in aus­tere areas while retain­ing the safe­ty, cost and range ben­e­fits of a fixed-wing air­craft. The EL9’s abil­i­ty to car­ry 1,000 lbs. over 1,000 miles enables an array of nov­el use cas­es for com­mer­cial and defence users.”

And points out, “The EL9 will trans­form com­mer­cial and mil­i­tary avi­a­tion for appli­ca­tions includ­ing last mile logis­tics, mobile pow­er gen­er­a­tion and emer­gency response.”

OJ Sanchez, VP and Gen­er­al Man­ag­er at Lock­heed Mar­tin, remarked, “Elec­tra has dri­ven sig­nif­i­cant inno­va­tion in the hybrid-elec­tric space, and we’re excit­ed to col­lab­o­rate with them to accel­er­ate their devel­op­ment.”

This lat­est agree­ment deep­ens the rela­tion­ship between the two part­ners. In 2022, Lock­heed Mar­tin Ven­tures signed a coop­er­a­tion agree­ment to invest in Electra’s Series ‘A’ Fund­ing Round.

For more infor­ma­tion 

https://www.electra.aero

www.lockheedmartin.com

(Top image: Marc Allen, OJ Sanchez sign MOU at Paris Air Show)

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