UK ARC Aerosystems Finalises Sale of Five Pegasus VTOL Autogyro Aircraft

UK-based ARC Aerosys­tems, best known for its Linx P9 heli­copter, announced this week a sale of five of its Pega­sus VTOL two-seat Aut­o­gy­ro to a Scot­tish investor, who will lease them to a pilot train­ing school and aer­i­al ser­vice oper­a­tor, reports a press release. ARC is com­mit­ted to deliv­er­ing all units by the first quar­ter of 2026. 

The company’s web­site states, “The Pega­sus is a result of the equiv­a­lent of USD50m invest­ment and over 2,500 hours of test flights and has been Part 27 Type Cer­ti­fied by the U.S. Depart­ment of Trans­porta­tion Fed­er­al Avi­a­tion Agency and Trans­port Cana­da. It is the first non-heli­copter VTOL air­craft to receive FAA cer­ti­fi­ca­tion.

“It was com­mis­sioned as a less fuel-hun­gry, qui­eter and safer recon­nais­sance air­craft by the U.S and Cana­di­an gov­ern­ments. Due to a change in strat­e­gy by the Amer­i­can gov­ern­ment to focus on the devel­op­ment of more con­ven­tion­al heli­copters, the Pega­sus was shelved. Even so, Avian Air­craft decid­ed to con­tin­ue with the pro­gram and com­plet­ed the FAA and Trans­port Cana­da Part 27 cer­ti­fi­ca­tion.”

The release takes over, “ARC looks to lever­age the Pega­sus poten­tial as a solu­tion to mod­ern chal­lenges in rur­al trans­port and var­i­ous civ­il con­tin­gen­cies. The craft offers sev­er­al advan­tages over cur­rent eVTOL mod­els: notably low­er pow­er con­sump­tion, increased safe­ty, and reduced main­te­nance costs. Most impor­tant­ly, unlike many eVTOL con­cepts still under devel­op­ment, the Pega­sus is already cer­ti­fied and oper­a­tional­ly proven.”

The com­pa­ny says, “This sale not only reflects ARC Aerosys­tems capa­bil­i­ty to meet cur­rent avi­a­tion demands, but also high­lights its role in shap­ing the future of VTOL tech­nol­o­gy.”

Dr Seyed Mohseni

Dr Seyed Mohseni, Founder and CEO of ARC, com­ment­ed, “The sale of five air­craft exem­pli­fies our abil­i­ty to meet the evolv­ing needs of the avi­a­tion indus­try and rein­forces a com­mit­ment to pio­neer­ing effi­cient and prac­ti­cal aer­i­al mobil­i­ty solu­tions.”

ARC Aerosys­tems is close to start­ing tri­al flights of the Pega­sus over the com­ing months at the UKs lead­ing test flight facil­i­ty at Cran­field Uni­ver­si­ty in Bed­ford­shire.  The com­pa­ny is plan­ning pub­lic flight demon­stra­tions at the Farn­bor­ough Air­show lat­er this year.

For more infor­ma­tion

https://arcaerosystems.com/pegasus/

(Top image: ARC Aerosys­tems)