Aircraft
Bye Aerospace Prioritizes eFlyer 2 Electric Trainer Over eFlyer 800
Company claims orders have topped 1,000 airplanes valued at more than $700 million
Bye Aerospace eFlyer 2 electric airplane
The eFlyer 2 mockup on display at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh is aerodynamically representative of the final design but will not be a flying prototype. © AIN/Matt Thurber

Bye Aerospace says it is advancing work on the electrically-powered eFlyer 2 flight training airplane it has had in development since 2021. During the EAA AirVenture show last week, the company's president and CEO, Rod Zastrow, told AIN it is focusing efforts and investment on the two seater and the four-seat eFlyer 4 model, with earlier plans for the nine-passenger eFlyer 800 now on hold.

At the event in Oskhosh, Wisconisn, Bye Aerospace displayed a mockup of the eFlyer 2. This model matches the aerodynamic shape of the eventual production airplane but is not intended to be a flying prototype.

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