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Dufour To Locate Some Work on Aero eVTOL Aircraft Family in Montreal
The Swiss company is recruiting software engineers in Montreal, which is Canada's main aerospace industry hub.
Dufour Aerospace's Aero3 eVTOL aircraft could be used for emergency medical flights.
Swiss-based Dufour Aerospace will conduct some development work for its Aero3 hybrid-electric tilt-wing eVTOL design in Montreal. (Image: Dufour)

Switzerland-based Dufour Aerospace is establishing facilities in Montreal as it steps up development work for its Aero family of hybrid-electric tilt-wing eVTOL aircraft. The company said on April 6 that it has started to recruit software engineers in the Canadian aerospace hub to work on its Aero2 and Aero3 designs.

“Canada and Montreal have such a historic pedigree in both aviation and software engineering,” said Dufour CEO Thomas Pfammatter. “We were initially inspired by the Canadair Dynavert [CL-84], where Canadian engineers established the aerodynamic principles of tilt-wing flight and built prototypes with hundreds of hours of flight time.”