Volocopter Reorganises Supply Chain And Plans to Test VoloCity and VoloXPro In Germany This Year

Volo­copter has pro­vid­ed some updates on its busi­ness, as the com­pa­ny realigns its sup­ply chain and accel­er­ates its research, devel­op­ment, and pro­duc­tion for the VoloC­i­ty and VoloX­Pro air­craft.

The com­pa­ny was inte­grat­ed into Dia­mond Air­craft’s busi­ness port­fo­lio last year and with Dia­mond’s exper­tise, it is also simul­ta­ne­ous­ly realign­ing its sup­ply chain with the major scope of scal­a­bil­i­ty, cost com­pet­i­tive­ness, qual­i­ty and safe­ty.

The search and audit­ing of new sup­pli­ers, as well as the con­trac­tu­al restruc­tur­ing and improved devel­op­ments with new and exist­ing ones, are com­plet­ed. Deliv­ery of key com­po­nents need­ed for research, devel­op­ment, and pro­duc­tion is par­tial­ly affect­ed by longer lead times.

Dur­ing this phase, Volo­copter is uti­liz­ing short-term work arrange­ments to remain flex­i­ble in respond­ing to deliv­ery sched­ules. The devel­op­ment and cer­ti­fi­ca­tion goals for the VoloX­Pro and the VoloC­i­ty remain unaf­fect­ed.

David Bausek, CTO at Volo­copter, said: “The suc­cess­ful com­ple­tion of the realign­ment phase has led to fur­ther improve­ments in our prod­ucts.

“To effec­tive­ly man­age our teams dur­ing the deliv­ery of parts and com­po­nents, we will use the tool of short-term work as well as oth­er flex­i­ble orga­ni­za­tion­al instru­ments. How­ev­er, this does not change our devel­op­ment and cer­ti­fi­ca­tion goals.”

Volo­copter con­tin­ues to assume that the VoloX­Pro, which is intend­ed to open the end-cus­tomer mar­ket in the Light Sports eVTOL seg­ment, will receive its cer­ti­fi­ca­tion at the end of 2026.

The com­pa­ny also expects that the VoloC­i­ty, which is intend­ed to open the mar­ket for urban, elec­tri­cal­ly pow­ered pas­sen­ger trans­port, will receive its EASA cer­ti­fi­ca­tion in 2027.

Fur­ther­more, Volo­copter will begin set­ting up a sand­box lat­er this year in Bruch­sal, Ger­many, which will be an iso­lat­ed test envi­ron­ment where real­is­tic flight oper­a­tions for the VoloC­i­ty and VoloX­Pro can be sim­u­lat­ed.