Air Cahana plans to operate scheduled regional air service with a fleet of ATR airliners retrofitted with ZeroAvia’s in-development ZA2000 hydrogen-electric powerplants, the FlightGlobal reported on 21 August.
It plans to start with French-made ATR regional turboprops “about a year” into flying passengers. “It’s almost certainly going to be the only aircraft in the world that’s certified for 100% sustainable aviation fuel,” founder and chief executive Tony Thompson says. “The second reason we are going to transition to that aircraft is because that’s the aircraft ZeroAvia is going to certify their hydrogen powerplants on.”
Air Cahana intends to operate ATRs using SAF before retrofitting them with hydrogen propulsion systems when ZeroAvia’s technology becomes commercially available.
It plans to scale to 21 aircraft by the end of the decade. “That’s a pretty aggressive plan but… I think we can do it”, Thompson says.
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