Eviation has declined to comment on media reports about the anticipated redesign of its all-electric Alice aircraft. On January 19, FlightGlobal published an image obtained from an undisclosed source that appeared to show a reworked version of the nine-seat model in which the current design’s pair of pusher propellers on the wingtips, and one on the rear end of the fuselage, had been replaced with two forward-facing propellers on the horizontal stabilizer of a T-shaped tail that is a departure from the current V-shaped configuration.
At the International Aerospace Innovation Forum on December 15, Eviation cofounder and CEO Omer Bar-Yohay indicated that the prototype it now expects to start flying during 2021 will feature some modifications to the version it unveiled at the Paris Air Show in June 2019. However, when asked whether Eviation could confirm details of the redesign presented in the FlightGlobal report, a company spokeswoman said it did not have any information it would share on the subject.
