The company’s road map includes supporting training for the first commercial electric aircraft with seats up to 10 seats through 2025, as well as providing test facilities for these and other electrical aircraft.
Deliveries are expected to have started by the end of 2023 following first flight, while Aeroter hopes to achieve EASA certification for the type in 2024.
The new unit is independent from the OEM, which was deemed necessary to give Airbus Urban Mobility the nimbleness to react in the dynamic advanced air mobility market.
The Brazilian OEM issued its 20-year commercial market outlook Nov. 15 at the Dubai Airshow, saying those new aircraft sales could be worth $650 billion.
“We are confident that this is the right moment to invest as regional aviation is on an optimistic, post-pandemic recovery,” Overland president and CEO Edward Boyo said.
The company is seeing countries increasingly look to its business-jet platforms capable of special missions which can operate with lower costs than converted airliners or military aircraft.