Overview

• The company validated its hydrogen-electric propulsion at full scale in a representative environment at its new powertrain lab in Toulouse, France.
• The Toulouse facility replicates three fuel cell channels with up to 1,200 kW capacity and on-site 700 bar Type IV hydrogen storage, supported by about $50 million in funding.
• EKPO’s NM20 fuel cell stack, FEV Aerospace, BrightLoop Converters, AVL, and Dassault Systèmes contributed to system validation, with Airbus Protect providing safety and certification analyses.
• Beyond Aero consolidated designs, flight data, patents, test equipment, and staff from Universal Hydrogen, assets valued at more than $90 million.
• The program is engaged with EASA under Pre-Application Services, with next steps including a flight demonstrator to pursue TRL7/8 and progress toward CS-23 certification for the six-passenger, roughly 800-nm BYA-1.