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2026
20 July

ReleaseNew Pipistrel Voyager brings next generation training capabilities and access to flight schools

2025
1 December

ReleasePipistrel achieves historic type certification in Colombia

12 November

ReleasePipistrel Velis Electro, Explorer, Velis Club aircraft earn type certificate validation from Transport Canada

6 February The Nuuva V300’s hybrid-electric VTOL system enables runway-independent cargo transport.

Pipistrel completes first hover of cargo UAV

The hybrid-electric VTOL aircraft will support logistics, humanitarian missions and commercial operations with a 600 pound payload.

2024
20 November The aero-compliant AEROCELL 400KW by H3 Dynamics.

H3 Dynamics unveils aero-compliant 0.4MW hydrogen fuel cell

H3 Dynamics is already working with aircraft OEMs including Airbus UpNext, the EU-backed program Hypotrade led by Pipistrel and NLR, Qdot Technology, Sea Cheetah, Lyte Aviation and several others.

2023
12 November

ReleaseHoneywell's Advanced Air Mobility business reaches $10 billion in wins to help build the future of sustainable flight

26 July

Nexus scale model enters the wind tunnel

Testing will validate the performance, stability and control of the vehicle design to confirm preliminary configuration, range, and speed estimates, as well as how the rotors interact with the vehicle aerodynamics.

30 January

ReleaseHoneywell launches disruptive research on hydrogen fuel cells for aircraft

2022
18 April

ReleaseTextron completes acquisition of Pipistrel

24 March Pipistrel's Velis Electro aircraft.

Textron eAviation bows in with Pipistrel purchase

The European electric aircraft experts will form the basis of a whole new segment under the Textron eAviation name, focused on urban air mobility, general aviation, cargo and special mission roles.

9 March Pipistrel’s type-certified electric propulsion technologies are deployed in the Velis Electro.

BAE Systems and Pipistrel build military electric expertise

The drive to develop sustainable products is a key focus for BAE Systems, including electrification, increased use of synthetics and other greener energy sources. Pipistrel bring considerable experience to the party.

26 January The Pipistrel SW 121A Explorer.

Pipistrel adds Explorer to trainer model range

This trainer has an autopilot, dual touch-screen glass cockpit, dual COM, ADS-B In & Out, haptic stall-warning, full-airframe ballistic parachute rescue system, type-certified hydraulic constant-speed propeller and airbrakes.

2021
17 November Pipistrel will provide motors, motor controllers, and batteries for Airflow’s unique distributed electric propulsion approach.

Airflow adds Pipistrel motors for eSTOL concept

Pipistrel is the maker of the first and still only type-certified electric aircraft in the world, the VELIS Electro, with expertise in clean sheet design through to project completion.

10 November Expectations set prior to the ground-tests were confirmed by the performance of the MAHEPA Panthera, which the consortium says has all the characteristics to become a flying test-bed for future developments in hybrid aviation.

Hybrid Panthera completes first phase flight testing

The MAHEPA Panthera has flown from Cerklje airport in Slovenia, demonstrating the possibility of local zero-emission flights by performing all-electric take-offs.

16 September

ReleasePipistrel and Genevation enter aircraft manufacturing corporation

9 September

ReleaseSKYCHARGE, powered by Green Motion and Pipistrel, is the world's first OEM-independent electric airplane charger to be approved by EASA

16 August

ReleasePipistrel selects Honeywell's revolutionary small UAV satcom system

20 July

ReleaseBeam Global sets world record for longest flight in a production electric aircraft, powered only by sunshine

16 June

ReleaseHydrogen-electric passenger plane HY4 flies emission free over 240 km (150 miles)

15 April

Pipistrel to design heavy cargo UAV for logistics in China

Research at the Technical University of Munich is behind the Amazalia flight control system which will steer Pipistrel's heavy cargo hybrid VTOL drone. The partners hope it will see service in 2023.

1 April

ReleaseHoneywell to provide critical navigation and sensor technology for Pipistrel's unmanned cargo aircraft

11 February Pipistrel now sees the NUUVA in roles beyond cargo delivery.

Pipistrel teams with UAS experts C-astra to develop NUUVA

Bringing C-astra onboard will help Pipistrel develop its UAS for the fast-growing Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance - C4ISR - market.

11 February

ReleasePipistrel makes significant progress with Miniliner designs for a new generation of zero-emission aerial mobility

2020
17 December The Hy4 hydrogen powered hybrid-electric aircraft successfully flew from Maribor airport.

MAHEPA's hydrogen fuel cell driven Hy4 flies

With the renovated and optimised fuel cell system technology developed in MAHEPA and in strong cooperation with multiple national projects, the Hy4 is the most powerful hydrogen fuel cell driven aircraft ever made.

11 December

ReleaseMAHEPA announces: Hydrogen fuel cell driven Hy4 has flown

20 November

ReleaseBeam performed world's first Flying on Sunshine flight in a Pipistrel production electric aircraft

29 October

Honeywell to supply the brains for Pipistrel's Nuuva

Roughly the size of a paperback book, Honeywell's compact fly-by-wire system is intended for smaller autonomous cargo and UAM vehicles - and perfect, says Pipistrel, for its Nuuva V300.

29 October

ReleaseBEAM Global to perform world's first Flying On Sunshine flight in a production electric aircraft

3 September An artist's impression of the Nuuva V300 being loaded up.

Pipistrel unveils long-range autonomous eVTOL model

Eight independent battery-powered Pipistrel E-811 electric engines will power the new Nuuva V300 as far as 2,500km. For shorter trips the tandem-wing design could have a payload of 460kg.

19 July

ReleaseFirst customer's Velis Electro rolls out of assembly line

11 June The Pipistrel Velis Electro receives type certification from EASA.

Pipistrel earns first EASA type certificate for electric aeroplane

Customers in seven countries can now expect to be flying Velis Electro light aircraft by the end of 2020, powered by battery and certificated by EASA in a process that took less than three years.

9 May

ReleasePipistrel milestone announcement: MAHEPA Electric Drive unit completed pre-flight qualification tests

2019
22 July

ReleaseBendixKing and Pipistrel to enhance pilot training with a touchscreen, integrated flight deck

8 April

ReleasePipistrel to receive world's first microlight certification according to new German 600kg technical LTFUL 2018 rules

24 January

ReleasePipistrel and Honeywell collaborate on aircraft technologies for urban air mobility

2018
3 July

ReleaseThe second part of Pipistrel's factory building starts construction in Gorizia, Italy

9 May

ReleasePipistrel reveals new eVTOL Concept for Uber and strategic partnership with Elan

2017
1 December

ReleasePipistrel establish a company in China

24 July

ReleaseEarthX, Inc. is proud and excited to announce that Pipistrel Aircrafts, located in Slovenia is using the EarthX lithium battery

25 April

ReleaseUber partners with Pipistrel Aircraft to manufacture electric VTOLs

2016
29 October

ReleasePipistrel d.o.o. Ajdovscina and Chinese company Sino GA Group Co. have signed a MoU for a long-term joint-venture cooperation

29 September

ReleaseFirst 4-seat aircraft powered by hydrogen fuel cells takes off

27 July

ReleaseNASA tests Pipistrel electric propulsion systems in scope of their electric X-plane program

16 June

ReleasePipistrel d.o.o. Ajdovscina has produced aircraft number 800 from the Sinus/Virus family

19 April

ReleaseFirst Pipistrel aircraft certified by EASA

18 February

ReleaseMost powerful hybrid electric powertrain powers up

2014
22 August

ReleaseWATTsUP, the new 2-seat electric trainer took its maiden flight

2013
5 September

ReleasePipistrel introduces the Sinus Flex

7 April

ReleaseThe maiden flight of the Panthera

29 March

ReleasePanthera rollout and first engine start