UrbanLink Air Mobility Selects Elfly Group’s NOEMI Electric Seaplane for Future Operations in Florida

Elfly Group has announced the sign­ing of a Mem­o­ran­dum of Under­stand­ing (MoU) with Urban­Link Air Mobil­i­ty, which includes a 10+10 soft order for its NOEMI elec­tric amphibi­ous sea­plane and a poten­tial order val­ue of approx­i­mate­ly $200 mil­lion.

Urban­Link is devel­op­ing an inte­grat­ed zero-emis­sion trans­port net­work across air, sea and ground, with ini­tial hub cities includ­ing Mia­mi, Los Ange­les and San Juan. While Elfly Group is devel­op­ing NOEMI (No Emis­sions), its ful­ly elec­tric amphibi­ous or “Go any­where” sea­plane designed for zero-emis­sion region­al con­nec­tiv­i­ty and with capac­i­ty for nine pas­sen­gers or one tonne of car­go.

Announced today (Mon­day), this part­ner­ship reflects a shared ambi­tion to accel­er­ate zero-emis­sion region­al con­nec­tiv­i­ty, com­bin­ing NOEMI’s all-elec­tric, amphibi­ous air­craft capa­bil­i­ties with UrbanLink’s vision for seam­less, end-to-end­sus­tain­able trav­el.

Ed Wegel, Founder and CEO of Urban­Link, said: “NOEMI fits nat­u­ral­ly into our vision for clean, con­nect­ed region­al mobil­i­ty. It’s amphibi­ous capa­bil­i­ty and elec­tric propul­sion make it a com­pelling and effi­cient solu­tion for­link­ing coastal and island com­mu­ni­ties.”

Elfly Group’s NOEMI elec­tric amphibi­ous air­craft can take off and land on both water and run­ways. This unlocks access tocoast­lines, rivers, lakes and har­bours — the nat­ur­al run­ways that cov­er 70 per cent of the plan­et — while enabling clean,quiet and effi­cient region­al avi­a­tion with min­i­mal infra­struc­ture require­ments.

With this MoU, Elfly has now secured soft orders for more than 70 NOEMI air­craft across five con­ti­nents,
rein­forc­ing NOEMI’s posi­tion in the emerg­ing mar­ket for elec­tric region­al avi­a­tion.

Eric Lithun, Founder and CEO of Elfly Group, said: “Urban­Link rep­re­sents exact­ly the kind of for­ward-lean­ing oper­a­tor we want to part­ner with. This MoU under­lines grow­ing mar­ket con­fi­dence in NOEMI and the inter­na­tion­al com­mer­cial momen­tum we are build­ing as we com­mence full-scale pro­to­type devel­op­ment.

“Flori­da is a per­fect start­ing point, with its exten­sive coast­lines, islands and water­ways. It is one of the best places in the world to unlock the full poten­tial of elec­tric sea­plane trav­el.”