Skyfly to offer its electric propulsion system to other aircraft makers

Skyfly Technologies plans to offer its electric propulsion system to other original equipment manufacturers, making the technology available through the secondary market rather than keeping it exclusive to its own light sport aircraft.

The system was designed to meet Federal Aviation Administration requirements for light sport aircraft. The company says the architecture is flexible enough to suit a range of aircraft configurations, and it is leaving integration decisions to the manufacturers that adopt it.

Skyfly has also unveiled a separate hybrid propulsion system for unmanned aircraft that use distributed electric propulsion, where multiple smaller motors are spread across the airframe instead of being concentrated in one or two larger engines.

The company did not disclose financial terms, licensing partners, or a timeline for adoption. Taken together, the announcements point to Skyfly positioning itself as a supplier of propulsion technology to the wider light aircraft and unmanned aircraft sectors, not just as a manufacturer of its own aircraft.