Study finds Airlander suited to serve Highlands and Islands communities
A study has found that Hybrid Air Vehicles’ Airlander hybrid airship can deliver cost-effective, low-emission passenger transport and freight to the Highland and Island communities in the North of Scotland.
The study was part funded by the UK government through UKRI funding to the SATE (Sustainable Aviation Test Environment) project of which HAV is a partner.
The report was supported by AECOM, Highlands and Islands Airports Limited (HIAL), Highlands and Islands Transport Partnership (HiTrans), Highlands and Islands Enterprise [HIE], Orkney Island Council (OIC) and Loganair, who are stakeholders in the development and potential of Airlander in the region.
The report found that Airlander could help to decarbonise regional travel, add freight capacity into the network and provide further economic growth through tourism. The report also found that Airlander would provide a high dispatch availability when surveyed against historic weather data and can operate from a range of airports, small Island airfields and bodies of sheltered water.
The study concluded that the integration of Airlander into established inter-island transport services could greatly improve regional connectivity in an area that has been traditionally hard to serve.
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