Electra.aero, Inc., in partnership with Surf Air Mobility Inc. and Virginia Tech, successfully completed the first series of public demonstrations of its Ultra Short aircraft capabilities earlier this month. The demos – captured as part of a new video series – highlight how blown lift and ...

Electra has successfully completed powered wind tunnel testing for its nine-passenger EL9 Ultra Short hybrid-electric aircraft, confirming Electra’s blown wing design delivers the high lift needed for takeoff and landing in just 150 feet. This is 10% the distance typically required by conventio...

Electra.aero, Inc. today announced it has secured $115 million in Series B funding to enter the pre-production and certification phase of the EL9, the first-ever Ultra Short aircraft, which can take off and land in 150 feet – roughly 10% of the footprint required for similarly-sized legacy airplan...

Electra.aero, Inc. (Electra), the aerospace company pioneering Direct Aviation as a new category, has secured 2,200 pre-orders for its EL9 Ultra Short hybrid-electric aircraft. Valued at nearly $9 billion, Electra's order pipeline is one of the largest in the Advanced Air Mobility industry. El...

Electra.aero, Inc. has revealed the design of its EL9 Ultra Short hybrid-electric product aircraft, a nine-passenger piloted aircraft. Electra now enters the development phase of the EL9 backed by over a year of successful flight testing of its EL2 Goldfinch two-seat prototype, proving the techno...

Electra.aero, Inc. has announce the appointment of B. Marc Allen as its new Chief Executive Officer. Marc Allen joins Electra after a long career at The Boeing Company, where he most recently served as Chief Strategy Officer and Senior Vice President for Strategy and Corporate Development. He ...

Honeywell last week announced that its flight control computers and electromechanical actuation systems have been selected by Electra for its nine-passenger hybrid-electric eSTOL aircraft. These "critical technologies" will support the fixed-wing eSTOL (short take-off and landing) aircraft’s abil...

Electra.aero, Inc., a next-gen aerospace company with a mission to help decarbonize aviation and open new air transportation markets, today announced its achievement of pre-order sales of over 2,000 electric short takeoff and landing (eSTOL) aircraft with a market value exceeding $8 billion. Elec...

Electra.aero, Inc. (Electra) announced today that it has successfully completed the first flights of its EL-2 Goldfinch, a hybrid-electric, ultra-short takeoff and landing (eSTOL) aircraft. "The Goldfinch completed an all-electric test flight on November 11 and a hybrid-electric flight on November ...

KinectAir, the operating system for booking private charter and advanced air mobility flights, has partnered with Electra.aero, Inc., a next-gen aerospace company, to meet the growing demand for convenient, safe, and affordable flight services in the underserved regional travel market. The combi...

Electra shares that it has hired Randy Griffith as its Director of Certification and has begun working with the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Center for Emerging Concepts and Innovation (CECI) and the Atlanta Aircraft Certification Office (ACO) to define the certification path for its ...