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News archive: Bye Aerospace eFlyer 2

Every Bulletin story and press release covering Bye Aerospace eFlyer 2, newest first.

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17 June

ReleaseBye Aerospace nears eFlyer 2 first flight milestone

4 December 2025

Carbon composite builders onboard for first eFlyer 2

The EASA-certified electric aircraft will combine aerodynamic efficiency with full carbon fibre structures tailored for flight training durability.

28 October 2025

ReleasemagniX Samson batteries to power Bye Aerospace’s eFlyer prototype training aircraft

12 September 2024 The eFlyer 2 mould.

Bye Aerospace begins initial build of first eFlyer 2

The outcome will be a full-scale aircraft that will undergo extensive aerodynamic testing, derisking the remaining certification compliance tasks. Work is under way in Denver, Colorado.

27 September 2023

ReleaseBye Aerospace's eFlyer 2 achieves FAA acceptance of Functional Hazard Analysis

24 January 2023

ReleaseMajor milestone achieved: FAA approves eFlyer2 certification means of compliance

6 April 2022 Crane’s versatile High Voltage DC-DC Converter will support Bye Aerospace’s eFlyer 2 electric aircraft.

Crane voltage converters find a place aboard the eFlyer 2

Regardless of electrical power source, Crane A&E's high-power converters will convert high voltage source power into an aircraft's traditional 28v DC bus or 270v DC bus, delivering up to 4kW of power.

4 August 2021 An artist's impression of the eFlyer 2 cockpit concept.

Bye specifies Garmin's G500 TXi for the eFlyer 2

The modern G500 TXi flight display will be tailored for the eFlyer 2 to display its electric propulsion information, while also adding synthetic vision, terrain and traffic alerting, geo-referenced charts, and more.

29 July 2021

ReleaseEvolution of the Bye Aerospace eFlyer 4 design continues to advance

11 March 2021 Testing of ASR recovery parachute system for eFlyer 2. (Photo: Aviation Safety Resources, Inc.)

eFlyer 2 parachute recovery system makes safe touchdown

Nobody can be certain what will happen when throwing a product out of a helicopter at 6,600 feet, but ASR's parachute recovery system developed for Bye Aerospace performed flawlessly.

1 March 2021

ReleaseeFlyer 2 Serial #001: assembly underway

28 January 2021

Bye kicks off construction of conforming eFlyer 2

Three conforming eFlyer 2 aircraft will be used in the test program to achieve final FAA certification, and the first is now being built by experimental aircraft experts Composites Universal Group.

18 November 2020 Safran Electrical & Power will supply ENGINeUS electric smart motors to the Bye Aerospace eFlyer family of aircraft.

Bye selects electric smart motors by Safran

Bye Aerospace already has sales agreements for over 700 eFlyer aircraft, and has opted to equip these with Safran's ENGINeUS 100 smart electric motor with fully integrated motor controller.

2 November 2020

ReleaseBye Aerospace signs key agreements with Aerospace9

10 August 2020

ReleaseBye Aerospace selects Aviation Safety Resources to develop next-generation parachute recovery system for eFlyer 2

13 July 2020

ReleaseBye Aerospace closes $10 million in funding

22 June 2020

ReleaseBye Aerospace's eFlyer 2 technology demonstrator begins next phase of flight tests

2 June 2020

ReleaseBye Aerospace approaches critical design phase completion

30 March 2020

ReleaseGarmin G3X Touch Avionics Advance for Electric eFlyer 2

6 November 2019

ReleaseOXIS Energy and Bye Aerospace begin collaboration to increase the endurance of future Bye Aerospace eAircraft

21 October 2019

ReleaseeFlyer developmental prototype flight tests confirm benefits of electric propulsion

27 August 2019

ReleaseBye Aerospace finalizes Garmin supplier agreement to provide eFlyer 2 avionics

18 July 2019

ReleaseeFlyer 2 prototype begins new flight test program with Siemens production motor

11 April 2019

ReleaseBye Aerospace rebrands electric airplane as eFlyer

12 March 2019

ReleaseBye Aerospace relocates to larger hangar as flight tests continue

15 February 2019

ReleaseSun Flyer 2 completes first flight with Siemens electric propulsion motor

13 April 2018

ReleaseBye Aerospace announces first flight of Sun Flyer 2

20 March 2018

ReleaseEPS providing electric batteries for Bye Aerospace "Sun Flyer"

23 July 2017

ReleaseSun Flyer 4 announced