With the successful conclusion of a month-long route test and reliability program in Hawaii for its five-seat, hybrid-electric powered EEL flying testbed, Ampaire is moving ahead with its next projects. “What we are focused on, rather than a single aircraft type is building a platform of technology that can be applied to a variety of planes,” company co-founder and CEO Kevin Noertker told the recent Vertical Flight Society Electric VTOL Symposium. “By taking this building block approach, we’re able to scale those same architectures into larger planes.”
The EEL, which is a retrofit of the Cessna 337 Skymaster, was intended to act as a technology demonstrator for the development of high-powered electronics, inverters, motors, and related systems. The California-based company which has received $30 million in funding since its inception in 2016, views it as a platform for developing scalable technology and certification processes, through a partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA-E). “Some customers have expressed interest in operating the EEL commercially, and we recognize there is a meaningful niche for it as a product,” Noertker acknowledged.
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