Aerospace Manufacturing

Hybrid Air Vehicles and Doncaster Council agree Airlander production site terms

The City of Doncaster Council and Hybrid Air Vehicles, the UK-based leader in sustainable aircraft technology, have agreed to locate the production programme for Airlander 10, the world’s most efficient large aircraft, at Carcroft Common.

25th March 2024

Grands Espaces reserves Airlander 10 aircraft for Arctic adventures

Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV) has signed an aircraft reservation agreement with Grands Espaces, a French eco-tourism company founded by renowned Arctic scientist and author, Christian Kempf.

6th February 2024

International Innovation Review: Unlocking a greener future

In our January 2023 issue, Ed Hill spoke to Air Nostrum’s Miguel Ángel Falcón Martín and Hybrid Air Vehicles’ Tom Grundy about the airline’s order for ten Airlander 10 aircraft to serve on Spanish regional routes.

6th December 2023

HAV and BAE Systems sign deal on defence development

Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV) has announced a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate and explore the potential of its Airlander 10 – an ultra-low emissions large aircraft - in security and defence applications, with BAE Systems’ FalconWorks advanced research and technology centre for the Air sector.

13th September 2023

Regional air carrier up reservations of Hybrid Air Vehicles

Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV), a UK-based leader in sustainable aircraft technologies, and Air Nostrum Group, which includes Hibernian Airlines in Ireland and Mel Air in Malta, have agreed to double the number of Airlander 10 under reservation, to a total of 20 aircraft.

12th September 2023

Airlander maker and Royal Air Tattoo form partnership

Hybrid Air Vehicles has announced a five-year corporate partnership with the world's largest military airshow, The Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT).

18th July 2023

Airlander production site gets approval

South Yorkshire’s Mayor Oliver Coppard and the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority (SYMCA) have approved a package of investment and support for plans by Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV) to produce its pioneering new low carbon aircraft, Airlander 10, in Doncaster.

17th March 2023

£1.7m funding boost for net zero regional aviation project

A project set to deliver the blueprint for net zero regional aviation in the UK has secured £1.7m funding and added three new partners as it enters the next phase of development.

6th March 2023

Unlocking a greener future

Ed Hill speaks to Air Nostrum’s Miguel Ángel Falcón Martín and Hybrid Air Vehicles’ Tom Grundy about the airline’s order for ten Airlander 10 aircraft to serve on Spanish regional routes.

24th January 2023

Highlands and Islands to explore Airlander’s potential

Hybrid Air Vehicles [HAV] has announced a first of its kind concept study to explore the use case for introducing Airlander 10 aircraft for passenger transport and freight in the Highlands and Islands.

11th November 2022

HAV sign deal with Air Nostrum for ten aircraft

Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV), a UK-based leader in sustainable aircraft technologies, has announced an aircraft reservation agreement with one of the largest regional airlines in Europe, Air Nostrum Group, for HAV’s pioneering hybrid aircraft - Airlander 10.

15th June 2022

New appointment to Airlander advisory board

Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV), the company behind the Airlander airlifter platform, has appointed John H. (‘Jay’) Gibson, II to its newly established advisory board.

15th February 2022

Production approval for Airlander

Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV) has been awarded Production Organisation Approval (POA) from the Civil Aviation Authority for the Airlander 10.

10th January 2019

Airlander prepares for flight once more

The Airlander team has announced the structural damage sustained to the flight deck during its second test flight in August 2016 has now been repaired.

10th March 2017

Hybrid Air Vehicles: a review of 2016

Hybrid Air Vehicles has announced the damage sustained by Airlander’s heavy landing in the summer of 2016 has now been repaired, and over the Christmas period the new cockpit has been painted prior to the windscreens being fitted. The early part of 2017 will consist of a series of rigorous tests before Airlander continues its flight test programme.

3rd January 2017

Hybrid Air Vehicles