Bye Aerospace receives order for 30 Sun Flyer 2s
Aspen Flying Club to use all-electric, composite material aircraft as trainers in its future fleet of aircraft.
Bye Aerospace (Denver, CO, US), the developer of the Sun Flyer family of high-tech all-electric, composite material airplanes, announced on Aug. 13 it has received a 30-aircraft order from a large Colorado-based training fleet partner, Aspen Flying Club (Englewood, CO, US).
George Bye, CEO of Bye Aerospace, said the partnership with Aspen Flying Club is a key step in the process to integrate the benefits of electric aviation at Centennial Airport (Englewood, CO, US), currently the second-busiest general aviation airport in the country.
Other recent purchase deposits and reservations for Bye Aerospace’s Sun Flyer 2 and the four-seat Sun Flyer 4 have been received from international customers in Norway, Israel, Hong Kong, New Zealand, British Columbia and Germany.
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