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Deutsche Aircraft’s 328eco Gets Boost from Norway
Norway’s North Energy Cluster will create the SAF infrastructure to help realize Deutsche Aircraft’s ambitions to develop a new D328 regional airliner.
Deutsche Aircraft expects to fly its Do 328eco with 100-percent PtL e-fuels by 2023. (Image: Deutsche Aircraft)
Deutsche Aircraft expects to fly its Do 328eco with 100-percent PtL e-fuels by 2023. (Image: Deutsche Aircraft)

An agreement reached this week between Deutsche Aircraft and Norway’s North Energy Cluster (NEC) brings the Dornier 328 type certificate holder one step closer to realizing its ambitions to introduce the world’s first 100 percent SAF-powered commercial aircraft to market. The agreement, which the partners say will achieve substantial short-term reductions of northern Norway’s aviation climate footprint through the use of so-called e-fuels, calls on wind and hydropower producers, technology suppliers, and electrochemical companies to help build the infrastructure needed at the 26 airports in the remote territory while Deutsche Aircraft provides the aircraft platform.