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AAM To Take Center Stage at EBACE 2024

Geneva event to highlight electric, hybrid, and hydrogen aircraft solutions

VoltAero Cassio 330 at Paris Airshow 2023 — VoltAero's Cassio 330 prototype, pictured here at Paris Airshow in 2023, will make its EBACE debut this year. The aircraft features a hybrid-electric propulsion system. © David McIntosh/AIN

By Hanneke Weitering • Science & Technology Editor

March 26, 2024

After several years of being somewhat regarded as upstarts on the fringes of the industry, advanced air mobility (AAM) pioneers are preparing to take center stage at one of the world's biggest business aviation trade shows in May. The annual European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition in Geneva will feature an enlarged Innovation Zone and eVTOL aircraft developers and other AAM ecosystem stakeholders will be prominent speakers in the daily conference program.

While maintaining the promise of democratizing air transportation, increasingly new electric and hybrid-electric aircraft are being positioned for early adopter business models in the private aviation sector. That will be much in evidence in the EBACE Innovation zone and also on the outdoor static display where VoltAero’s Cassio 330 hybrid-electric aircraft will be making its EBACE debut.

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