HAV launches Airlander 50 Development Partner Programme

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Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV) has launched the Airlander 50 Development Partner Programme, an effort to engage with stakeholders in the development of HAV’s low-carbon air freight platform.

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Airlander 10 - HAV

The Airlander 50 Development Partner Programme aims to understand the requirements of its future customers and use the regular insights and feedback from partners to shape and inform its conceptual design. Lead partners include infrastructure consultants AECOM and Blue Skies Holdings, which operates in Africa to produce fruit based products for European retailers. A spokesperson from Blue Skies Holdings said Airlander as it will enable the business to move raw materials from farms to factories with greater efficiency and with a vastly reduced carbon footprint.

In a statement, George Land, commercial business development director of Hybrid Air Vehicles said: “Airlander 50 will be the next member of the Airlander family of aircraft that follows Airlander 10. Today we are very pleased to be launching the Development Partner Programme for this aircraft, enabling us to refine its specification using real world use cases and feedback from a diverse set of potential customer, operator and infrastructure partners.” 

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