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Singaporean eVTOL Maker Aims To Inspire National Aerospace Industry
NTU team developing Singapore’s first domestically-produced aircraft
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“If it can be dreamed it can be built”—the motto of the team behind Singapore’s first domestically designed and produced aircraft. © David McIntosh/AIN

Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has revealed an eVTOL design that could become the country's first domestically produced passenger aircraft. Although certification of a full-scale aircraft isn’t expected until after 2030, flight testing of the two third-scale model unveiled today is taking place in Singapore and Germany.

The NTU technology demonstrator project, unveiled on February 3 at the Singapore Airshow, has been underway in secret for around three years, building on the Project Zero eVTOL concept first unveiled in 2013. After initial conversations in 2019, government funding was allocated to the current project in 2023. A 30-strong team is led by NTU professor James Wang, whose rotary-wing experience includes a tenure as senior v-p of marketing and v-p of research and development at AgustaWestland (now Leonardo).