The City of Doncaster Council and Hybrid Air Vehicles Ltd have reached an agreement to situate the production of Airlander 10 at Carcroft Common.

Hybrid Air Vehicles has announced the results of a first of its kind concept study into the role of Airlander, the world’s most efficient large aircraft, finding that it can deliver cost-effective, low-emission passenger transport and freight to the Highland and Island communities in the North of Scotland.

Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV) announced a concept study to explore the use case for introducing Airlander 10 aircraft for passenger transport and freight in the Highlands and Islands.

  Technicians recently completed a full hull inspection of Airlander using simple and safe rope access techniques which have been developed for maintaining aircraft. No major problems were found and Airlander got the thumbs up to continue its flight test programme.

Following the completion of all indoor testing, the Airlander 10, the world’s largest aircraft, has successfully exited the hangar for the first time. Airlander 10, a plane/airship hybrid, is designed to stay airborne for up to five days at a time to fulfil a wide range of communication and survey roles, as well as cargo carrying and tourist passenger flights.