Charter & Fractional
JSX Backs Heart’s Hybrid-electric ES-36 Redesign
Heart drops the ES-30 model as JSX signs for up to 100 ES-36 airplanes
JSX ES-36 render
Heart Aerospace’s ES-36, shown here in a rendering in JSX livery, replaces the 30-seat ES-30 as the company’s production airplane.

Heart Aerospace has dropped the 30-seat hybrid-electric ES-30 in favor of a larger, two-propeller version of the airplane called the ES-36, the Los Angeles-based manufacturer announced on Wednesday. Charter carrier JSX has signed a deposit-backed purchase agreement for 50 of the ES-36 airplanes, plus options for another 50.

The redesign comes about six weeks after the first flight of Heart’s X1 demonstrator, which flew August 12 at Plattsburgh International Airport in New York. Heart said at the time that the X1 represented the ES-30, a design featuring four propellers. Chief technology officer Ben Stabler said in a statement that the redesign “is a direct result of what Heart learned designing, building, testing and flying our X1 demonstrator aircraft.”

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