Vialumi Aerospace builds electric trainers for flight schools. Add a range extender when you need it.
Designed for Part 22 certification, for Part 61 and 141 training operations.
$/hr direct operating cost, median. Brackets span the 10th to 90th percentile.
Your hours and fuel price are fixed. Extender use, fuel burn, engine and motor reserves, electricity price, battery life and inspection costs are drawn from ranges in vialumi's operating-cost model.
Each of 2,000 runs draws one value from every range below, prices a year of flying for a piston trainer and for a vialumi trainer, and divides by hours. The bars show the median run; brackets are the 10th and 90th percentile. Direct operating cost only: no insurance, hangar, or unscheduled maintenance on either side.
A pattern hour on the battery costs a few dollars of grid power, charged on your ramp. The range extender burns fuel only on the hours you choose to fly with it.
The airframe is laid out so annuals and 100-hour inspections take fewer shop hours, with built-in diagnostics before the cowl comes off.
Fast-charge 50 to 80 percent in ten minutes on the battery, or refuel the range extender. It comes in a Jet-A or diesel version and a 100LL or mogas version, so it burns what your ramp already stocks.
Propulsion is always electric. The range extender is a removable pod that can be installed in about ten minutes. With the pod fitted, the aircraft refuels between blocks like any other. Without it, pattern blocks run on the battery with a ten-minute charge between them. Either way, up to eight dispatches a day.
Standard on every aircraftAirframe parachute. Shoulder-harness airbags. Climate control. Advanced avionics. IFR capable.
Trainers for every stage of pilot development, from sport pilot through commercial.
Designed for FAA certification under 14 CFR Part 22, supporting Part 61 and Part 141 training operations. Recreational and utility variants to follow.
Tell us your home airport and we'll rerun the comparison with your local fuel price and your registered fleet, then send back a one-page version you can put in front of your partners, with a link to the simulation tool for any inputs you want to change.
Or write to hello@vialumi.com.