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Eviation Co-founder and CEO Leaves Company Before Alice's First Flight
Omer Bar-Yohay co-founded the company and has led its efforts to bring the nine-passenger, all-electric, fixed-wing aircraft to market.
Eviation co-founder and CEO Omer Bay-Yohay (second left)
Eviation co-founder and CEO Omer Bay-Yohay, pictured here second left and representatives of the Alice aircraft's launch customer DHL, is leaving the company. (Image: Eviation)

Eviation co-founder and CEO Omer Bar-Yohay is leaving the company just as it prepares for the long-awaited first flight of its Alice electric aircraft. The U.S.-based firm today announced that as part of a “leadership reorganization” Gregory Davis will replace Bar-Yohay immediately.

In a social media posting on February 14, Bar-Yohay said he is stepping down from the position, "after a long-standing disagreement with the company's main shareholder."  Eviation insisted that his departure was, "part of a planned succession process that reflects the company's transition to the production phase," of the program.

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