Sustainable aircraft developer ZeroAvia will explore the feasibility of integrating hydrogen propulsion into a Cessna Caravan aircraft for the US Air Force.
The hydrogen aviator was selected by AFWERX for a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant to “address research questions with specific implications for the most pressing challenges in the Department of the Air Force (DAF).”
As part of the undisclosed grant, ZeroAvia will study how hydrogen-electric propulsion and autonomous flight systems could be integrated into a 3.6-tonne aircraft. The Cessna Caravan, a civilian aircraft made by Textron, will be the test platform.
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