LYTE Aviation is pioneering the industry’s first 40-seat eVTOL, a heavyweight passenger mass transit vertical take-off and landing aircraft branded the SkyBus LA-44. It is also designing a cargo variant, SkyTruck LA-44C, offering a payload capacity of 4.5 tons.
The aircraft is being designed to be five times more fuel-efficient than a helicopter, 10 times less noise polluting than a helicopter, with considerably fewer MRO costs. With its tandem tilt-wing technology, power will come from hybrid-hydrogen-electric turboprops and electric engines. “The SkyBus is an ideal solution to extend current ferry transport solutions on waterways in the near future for passenger mass and cargo transit,” says Lyte Aviation founder and CEO Freshta Farzam.
Owing to the use of proven and existing technologies available today, LYTE Aviation is estimating entering the market within five to six years.
UK-based LYTE Aviation is pleased to have entered a close strategic partnership with the AAM Institute, an American non-profit corporation, dedicated to educating and advocating for the broadest public benefit through the AAM ecosystem globally.
The AAM Institute is committed to protecting people, their rights, and systems. It seeks to accelerate access to these new technologies in an ethical and responsible way for the protection of the people who rely on it.
“There are almost 53,000 employees travelling each day over waterways and congested roadways. It makes this air transportation alternative a fascinating user case for us. Soon, after a long day of work, the daily commute of around 40km will take only 10 min instead of 90min. The SkyBus can take off from a landing pad (aka vertiport) at the Microsoft campus straight and land at a vertiport pad on the island. The future is faster and more feasible than we realize.”
