Horizon Aircraft与Great Lakes Helicopter就Cavorite X7支持签署意向书

Hori­zon Air­craft has signed a Let­ter of Intent (LOI) with Ontario-based Great Lakes Heli­copter (GLH) cov­er­ing main­te­nance, repair and over­haul (MRO), pilot train­ing and poten­tial air­craft pur­chas­es for the Cavorite X7 hybrid-elec­tric VTOL air­craft. Under the pro­posed agree­ment, GLH intends to pro­vide MRO ser­vices for the Cavorite X7 and sup­port pilot train­ing pro­grammes for future oper­a­tors. The heli­copter oper­a­tor and avi­a­tion ser­vices com­pa­ny also intends to pur­chase a num­ber of Cavorite X7 air­craft, although the com­pa­nies did not dis­close a quan­ti­ty or pur­chase val­ue. The part­ner­ship is intend­ed to estab­lish oper­a­tional sup­port infra­struc­ture as Hori­zon Air­craft pro­gress­es the Cavorite X7 towards com­mer­cial­i­sa­tion. GLH pro­vides heli­copter oper­a­tions, flight train­ing, air­craft main­te­nance and avi­a­tion sup­port ser­vices through its oper­a­tions in Ontario and affil­i­at­ed com­pa­nies, includ­ing Rotor Ser­vices. GLH is also devel­op­ing a new Rotor Ser­vices main­te­nance facil­i­ty, which the com­pa­ny says will sup­port next-gen­er­a­tion air­craft plat­forms. The facil­i­ty is expect­ed to form part of the pro­posed main­te­nance net­work for the Cavorite X7. In addi­tion to MRO sup­port, the com­pa­nies plan to devel­op pilot train­ing capa­bil­i­ties for the air­craft. This would pro­vide a path­way for oper­a­tors to train pilots ahead of future Cavorite X7 oper­a­tions, sub­ject to the air­craft com­plet­ing its test­ing and cer­ti­fi­ca­tion pro­gramme. Hori­zon Air­craft is devel­op­ing the Cavorite X7 as a hybrid-elec­tric VTOL air­craft designed to tran­si­tion between ver­ti­cal take-off and land­ing and con­ven­tion­al wing-borne flight. The com­pa­ny says the air­craft is intend­ed for appli­ca­tions includ­ing region­al trans­porta­tion, emer­gency ser­vices and mil­i­tary oper­a­tions. The agree­ment with GLH comes as Hori­zon works towards test­ing and cer­ti­fi­ca­tion of a full-scale Cavorite X7 before mov­ing into pro­duc­tion. The com­pa­ny has not pro­vid­ed a con­firmed com­mer­cial entry-into-ser­vice date. Thomas is a con­tent writer for eVTOL Insights, cov­er­ing all aspects of the glob­al Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty ecosys­tem. Got a sto­ry for him? Please send an email to editorial@evtolinsights.com