SAS ASCENDANCE FLIGHT TECHNOLOGIES

Ascendance Flight Technologies was co-founded in January 2018 by four former members of the Airbus E-Fan team, Jean-Christophe Lambert (CEO), Benoit Ferran (CTO), Thibault Baldivia (Head of Operations) and Clement Dinel (Head of Propulsion). The E-Fan was one of the world’s first all-electric airplanes that flew across the English Channel by an electric plane on July 9, 2015.

The idea to create the hybrid-electric VTOL airplane came from the founders after working on the E-Fan 2.0 two-seater all-electric prototype airplane when the project was cancelled in 2017. The founders left Airbus and created Ascendance Flight Technologies in 2018 to create and manufacture a hybrid-electric airplane on their own, providing a cleaner and safe aircraft for Regional Air Mobility (RAM), meaning point-to-point VTOL city to city air travel. This type of aircraft will also be useful for city to rural VTOL air travel as well.