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Electric Business Aircraft Development 'Creeping Up'

Between flight shaming and corporate clients interested in leaving a smaller carbon footprint, the push for electric aircraft is likely here to stay.

Bye Aerospace's proposed eFlyer 800 is this most serious electric-powered challenger to traditional business turboprops, including the King Air 260 and TBM 910. (Image: Bye Aerospace)

By Jerry Siebenmark • Senior Editor

May 28, 2021

As the push for sustainability within business aviation grows, so too do efforts by startup and established firms to offer all-electric fixed-wing aircraft. Though not anywhere near as voluminous as the seemingly hundreds of proposed eVTOL offerings and designs, a smaller group of companies are proposing more traditional business aircraft with electric powerplants.

They include Pipistrel in Slovenia, which last year certified in Europe an electrically powered light trainer; Ampaire in California, which in 2019 first flew a Cessna 337 Skymaster converted to hybrid-electric propulsion that it calls the Electric EEL; and Magnix and AeroTec, which last May completed the first flight of a Cessna 208B Grand Caravan with an all-electric propulsion system.

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