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Leidos and Elroy Air have been approved to demonstrate an autonomous Medium Aerial Resupply Vehicle – Expeditionary Logistics (MARV-EL) prototype for the Navy and Marine Small Tactical Unmanned Aircraft Systems program office (PMA-263). The flight test activities are scheduled for July 2024.

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Elroy Air flew the world’s first turbogenerator-hybrid electric vertical take-off and landing (hVTOL) aircraft on November 12 at its test-flight facility in Byron, California - the Chaparral C1.

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Elroy Air recently demonstrated its autonomous cargo delivery system at Travis Air Force Base. The demonstration was part of Mobility Guardian 2023, a large Air Mobility Command (AMC) full-spectrum readiness exercise.

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At the UP.Summit, Elroy Air, the company developing an end-to-end autonomous hybrid-electric vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) cargo system, announced the demand backlog for its Chaparral aircraft exceeded 1,000 vehicles in 2023.

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Bristow Group Inc., the world's leading global provider of innovative and sustainable vertical flight solutions, has reserved early delivery slots via deposit and will receive some of the first commercially certified Elroy Air Chaparral VTOL cargo systems off the production line.

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The board includes former senior military officials from the Navy, Army, Special Operations Command and Office of the Secretary of Defense.

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Company attracts top industry executives as it reaches $3B in commitments for its autonomous eVTOL cargo aircraft systems.

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Elroy Air demonstrated the autonomous ground navigation and cargo-handling systems of its Chaparral aircraft for United States Air Force senior and executive officers as part of the Golden Phoenix Technology Demonstration Event.

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Elroy Air has signed an agreement with LCI—a leading aviation company and a subsidiary of Libra Group—for commitments to purchase up to 40 of the company’s Chaparral vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft, with deposits paid for the first 20 vehicles.

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Bristow Group Inc. has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Elroy Air to pre-order 100 Chaparral hybrid-electric cargo VTOL aircraft to use the Chaparral to serve logistics, healthcare, and energy applications.

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FedEx and Elroy Air will work together to launch test flights aimed at middle-mile delivery in 2023, the latest initiative from FedEx in its effort to explore and adopt emerging technologies across its networks.

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Company announces commitments for more than 500 aircraft representing more than $1 billion in aircraft demand from commercial, defense, and humanitarian customers.

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AYR Logistics signs agreement to purchase up to 100 Chaparral autonomous, hybrid-electric VTOL delivery aircraft.

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Elroy Air raises $40MM Series A financing including Lockheed Martin Ventures to accelerate the development of its Chaparral Autonomous VTOL Cargo Aircraft. Strategic and financial investors back the California-based aerospace company leading the industry in large autonomous VTOL delivery drones for middle-mile express commercial shipping and Defense logistics.

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Trailblazing partnership aims to demonstrate safe airspace integration for unmanned logistics aircraft.

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Elroy Air announced that it has won a Phase 3 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract with Agility Prime, a non-traditional program in the US Air Force seeking to accelerate the commercial market for advanced air mobility vehicles.

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Elroy Air announced the successful completion of its first full-scale system flight test, the 1215 lb prototype reaching a height of 10 feet and hovering for 64 seconds before descending and landing safely.

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