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Faradair's Hybrid Electric Aircraft Finds Fresh Impetus in New Duxford Home

After almost abandoning the UK for the U.S., Faradair is staying on home turf to step up plans to get its BEHA hybrid-electric to market by 2024.

Faradair is developing a family of its Bio Electric Hybrid Aircraft for various applications including scheduled passenger services. (Image: Faradair)

By Charles Alcock • Managing Editor

September 1, 2020

Faradair, the UK company developing a hybrid-electric short takeoff and landing aircraft for a variety of applications including regional airline service, on Tuesday began operations at its new headquarters at Duxford airfield. The move gives the startup the stability it says it needs to advance plans to achieve a first flight with the planned Bio Electric Hybrid Aircraft (BEHA) in early 2024.

The company is the anchor tenant in Duxford’s new Avtech facility established as a research and development hub for general aviation ventures by Cambridge University’s Gonville & Caius College on land that it owns adjoining the Imperial War Museum site. The relocation marks what founder and CEO Neil Cloughley hopes will be a positive fresh start for a program that has struggled to gain altitude in a country that supposedly has ambitions to advance zero-carbon aviation technology.

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