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Hyundai Seeks New Leadership for eVTOL Subsidiary Supernal
Jaiwon Shin is stepping down as Supernal’s CEO and head of Hyundai’s Advanced Air Mobility Division
Supernal S-A2 eVTOL
Supernal has displayed a mockup of its S-A2 eVTOL aircraft, but it still hasn’t started flight-testing a prototype.

Hyundai Motor Group is rebooting the leadership team of its eVTOL aircraft developer Supernal, which is behind schedule for flight testing a prototype of its four-passenger S-A2 model. On August 27, the Korean carmaker confirmed that Jaiwon Shin is stepping down as Supernal’s CEO and head of Hyundai’s Advanced Air Mobility Division on August 31.

A company statement made no reference to when it expects to start flight tests with a representative full-scale prototype. In April, when Supernal confirmed that it had conducted tethered flights with a technology demonstrator in the Mojave Desert, it indicated that untethered flights were expected to start in late May or early June.

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