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Electra Set To Reveal Ultra Short Operations Hybrid-electric Aircraft

Former Boeing executive Marc Allen is now leading the Virginia-based company

Electra Aero EL-2 Goldfinch technology demonstrator — Electra Aero's EL-2 Goldfinch technology demonstrator aircraft has conducted austere environment flight trials with the U.S. Marines and Army.

By Charles Alcock • Managing Editor

September 26, 2024

Former senior Boeing executive Marc Allen has joined Electra Aero as its CEO at what he said is “a significant inflection point” as it prepares to accelerate work on its planned nine-passenger hybrid-electric STOL aircraft. At its Virginia headquarters, the company is expected to reveal the full-scale design and its name at an event in November. It incorporates lessons learned from extensive flight testing of the two-seat EL-2 Goldfinch technology demonstrator.

“This is an exciting moment as we move from a high-rate flight test program of the two-seat demonstrator to the nine-seat aircraft, and it will require a significant commitment of resources and getting the transition right,” Allen told AIN. “The demonstrator has confirmed that the concept translates into a deliverable [product] and we are now starting an intense design phase to get into production in 2028 or 2029.”

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