ZeroAvia achieves CAA’s Part 21 permit to fly for retrofitted Dornier 228

ZeroAvia has achieved an important milestone with UK’s Civil Aviation Authority granting a flying permit to ZeroAvia’s Dornier 228 aircraft retrofitted with its prototype hydrogen-electric powertrain. With this approval, ZeroAvia can now begin the first test flights of its 600kW, 19-seat twin-engine aircraft that has been retrofitted in an engineering testbed configuration to incorporate ZeroAvia’s hydrogen-electric engine powering the propellor on its left wing. The engine will operate operating a single Honeywell TPE-331 stock engine on the right for appropriate redundancy to allow the safe testing of the novel propulsion technology. Val Miftakhov, ZeroAvia, Founder & CEO, said: “Earning our