Cormorant
Cormorant
Fully electric aircraft under development to EASA CS-23 / FAA part 23 certification.
Designed with lower environmental impact and remoter communities in mind.
Fully electric: zero CO2 emissions at point of use
Solar panels enhance range and reduce reliance on charging infrastructure
*when using batteries as energy storage medium
7 seater: reconfigurable for passengers, cargo, medevac, and/or utility
Operates from land or, with easily attachable boat-hull, from both water & land.
STOL characteristics, limited aerobatics, unpaved runway capability
Low, in-line center of gravity provides for safer handling. Enclosed fan minimizes blade-strike incidents.
CORMORANT’S BASIC PRINCIPLES
Produce a practical, multiple-role STOL electric aircraft maximizing its relevance and appeal across market segments
Deliver our mission with sustainability as its core driver
Embed our SEA design values so as to remain flexible and entrench Safety, Efficiency and Adaptability both within the design process and resultant aircraft
Do not ‘reinvent the wheel’, but improve on historic design deficits, incrementally where feasible
Use proven, certified systems and solutions wherever sensible and practicable
Avoid unnecessary complication, leave the design of ‘exotic’, revolutionary, new aerial transport platforms to those with deep pockets and stakeholders to keep convinced of their vision
Minimize reliance on ‘known unknowns’, i.e. except where necessary, do not incorporate concepts that are either under development or require standards to be developed for them – or both
Reduce risk through deferring strategic decisions to allow any ‘known unknowns’ to mature, ideally into ‘known knowns’, without impeding progress
Indicative technical data
| Overall length | 10,45 m |
| Wingspan | 14,29 m |
| Height | 3,70 m |
| Fan diameter | 1,20 m |
| Maximum speed | 220 kias | |
| Maximum operating speed | 216 kias | VMO |
| Cruise speed @ 1000ft | 188 kias | |
| Stall speed | 66 kias | VS |
| Take-off speed at rotation | 77 kias | VR |
| En-route climb speed | 125 kias | |
| Approach speed | 74 kias | VAPP |
| Take-off distance to 50ft | 415 m |
| (Ground roll) | (300 m) |
| Landing distance from 50 ft | 564 m |
| Rate of climb (average) | 2175 fpm |
| Maximum / certified range | 810 / 486 nm |
| Endurance | 3,75 hrs |
| Manufacturer’s weight empty | 1375 kg | MWE |
| Maximum take-off weight | 2250 kg | MTOW |
| Maximum payload | 875 kg | |
| Fuel capacity | 1 m3 liquid H2 |
| Maximum take-off thrust at 2770 rpm | 520 kW (697 shp) |
| Maximum continuous thrust | 258 kW (346 shp) |
| Economy cruising thrust | 180 kW (241 shp) |
| Fan | 2770 rpm |
All indicative technical data are provisional and subject to change.
Contact us
To enquire about Cormorant, please reach out to us by completing the following form:
Cormorant SEAplanes BV
Curaçaolaan 25
1213 VJ Hilversum
The Netherlands
Registered with the Chamber of Commerce (KvK), no 83208763.
BTW / VAT no: NL862770610B01
Cormorant SEAplanes Ltd
5 South Charlotte Street
Edinburgh EH2 4AN
Scotland
Registered in Scotland, no SC748170.