PAS 2025: “ZeroAvia, Loganair Sign MOU Agreement on Zero-Emission Flights”

Zeroavia, a devel­op­er of full hydro­gen-elec­tric engines, announced this week at the Paris Air­show (PAS), that it has signed a Mem­o­ran­dum of Under­stand­ing (MOU) with UK-based Loganair, to work towards poten­tial adop­tion of hydro­gen-elec­tric engines to sup­port zero-emis­sion flights, reports a press release.  

The release explains, “ZeroAvia is advanc­ing cer­ti­fi­ca­tion of a 600kW hydro­gen-elec­tric pow­er­train for 10–20 seat air­craft with the UK’s CAA. Tar­get­ing the Cess­na Car­a­van as the launch air­frame, ZeroAvia intends to obtain addi­tion­al sup­ple­men­tal type cer­tifi­cates (STCs) for oth­er air­craft in this cat­e­go­ry, includ­ing the Twin Otter a pop­u­lar air­frame oper­at­ed by Loganair to serve com­mu­ni­ties in the Scot­tish High­lands & Islands.” 

The com­pa­ny is con­cur­rent­ly devel­op­ing the mod­u­lar ZA2000 engine for 40–80 seat avi­a­tion such as the ATR fam­i­ly of air­craft, with Loganair cur­rent­ly oper­at­ing more than 20 of such air­frames. 

Val Mif­takhov, Founder and CEO of ZeroAvia, com­ment­ed,  “Loganair’s route net­work lends itself very well to adop­tion of both our ZA600 and ZA2000 engine tech­nol­o­gy post cer­ti­fi­ca­tion. Hope­ful­ly, this can be the start of a long-last­ing cus­tomer rela­tion­ship for ZeroAvia and clean­er trans­port for pas­sen­gers in Scot­land and the UK.”   

The release con­tin­ues, “Hydro­gen-elec­tric engines use hydro­gen in fuel cells to gen­er­ate elec­tric­i­ty to pow­er elec­tric motors that turn propul­sors, with the only byprod­uct being water. With region­al tur­bo­prop air­craft oper­at­ing below typ­i­cal con­trail for­ma­tion, the in-flight emis­sions impact is effec­tive­ly zero.”  

Luke Fara­jal­lah (Cred­it: Steve Welsh)

Luke Fara­jal­lah, CEO, Loganair, remarked, “The future of sus­tain­able flight will rely on com­pa­nies like ZeroAvia and Loganair to be the pio­neers of new tech­nol­o­gy. We tru­ly believe the Loganair fleet and net­work to be the per­fect airline/geography com­bi­na­tion when con­sid­er­ing the ZeroAvia prod­uct suite.”

Adding, “The recent com­mit­ments made by ZeroAvia to bring their hydro­gen fuel-cell man­u­fac­tur­ing cen­tre to Glas­gow, and the strong engage­ment between our senior teams, has made this next step entire­ly pos­si­ble and log­i­cal.”    

These nov­el engines promise cost reduc­tions for air­lines. The sub­stan­tial­ly low­er main­te­nance needs of hydro­gen-elec­tric engines will mean a decrease in main­te­nance and down­time for an airline’s fleet, with hydro­gen fuel also pro­ject­ed to be sig­nif­i­cant­ly more cost effec­tive than kerosene over time.   

This week’s agree­ment cements ZeroAvia’s grow­ing ties in Scot­land. The com­pa­ny has been in a long­stand­ing col­lab­o­ra­tion to explore air­port hydro­gen fuel infra­struc­ture with Glas­gow Air­port and recent­ly announced plans along­side the First Min­is­ter of Scot­land to estab­lish its hydro­gen fuel cell man­u­fac­tur­ing cen­tre close to the air­port and Loganair’s HQ.  

For more infor­ma­tion

https://zeroavia.com/

https://www.loganair.co.uk

(Top image: Loganair poten­tial hydro­gen-pow­ered air­line — graph­ic image)

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