Asia-Pacific AAM Report 1H 2023
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OEM OVERVIEW<br />
AIR<br />
Israel | Founded in 2017<br />
AIR, founded in 2017, is a developer of eVTOL aircraft headquartered in Pardes Hanna-Karkur, Israel. Originally named Polarity Mobility,<br />
the Israeli company was founded by Chen Rosen (CTO), and later joined by co-founders Rani Plaut (CEO) and Netanel Goldberg (COO). The<br />
company is focused on bringing the reality of personal flight to the consumer market. Individual consumers can hire pilots through AIR<br />
or drive the vehicle themselves with appropriate certificates. AIR plans to relocate a large portion of its R&D and operations to the United<br />
States and continue collaborating with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for certification.<br />
AIR ONE<br />
PROJECT<br />
TYPE<br />
OPERATION<br />
RANGE<br />
PHASE Prototype Development<br />
Multicopter<br />
Piloted<br />
161 km<br />
CRUISE SPEED<br />
161 km/h<br />
SEATS 2<br />
ELECTRIC MOTORS 8<br />
The AIR ONE has a Multicopter configuration with a pair of fixed wings. The vehicle has four booms extended from the fuselage, where<br />
each boom has two electric motors powering two propellers rotating in opposite directions. The vehicle is a two-seater. The proprietary<br />
“Fly-By-Intent” software built into the AIR ONE affords anyone operating the aircraft an extremely high level of safety. Personal air mobility<br />
for individual users is the target market for AIR ONE.<br />
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