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PartsWork t1_j5a072j wrote

>ZeroAvia's 19-seat plane, called the Dornier 228​

The Dornier 228 is already a plane, they took a stock one and changed the left wing engine to hydrogen-electric, according to ZeroAvia's press release. There's a video of the flight on their Youtube channel, as well as a bunch of other videos about their work and the industry.

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WikiSummarizerBot t1_j5a08a1 wrote

Dornier 228

>The Dornier 228 is a twin-turboprop STOL utility aircraft, designed and first manufactured by Dornier GmbH (later DASA Dornier, Fairchild-Dornier) from 1981 until 1998. Two hundred and forty-five were built in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. In 1983, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) bought a production licence and manufactured another 125 aircraft in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. In July 2017, 63 aircraft were still in airline service.

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