The future of flight takes off.
In 2026, Heart will fly the world's largest electric aircraft. Electric aviation at commercial scale is no longer a matter of if, but when.
From every angle.
Low speed taxi test
X1 Turnaround Test
Introducing Heart X1
The World’s Largest Electric Aircraft.
A full-scale, all-electric regional aircraft demonstrator.
Size
- WINGSPAN
- 106 ft32.3 m
- LENGTH
- 75.5 ft23.0 m
- HEIGHT
- 27.99 ft8.5 m
The X1 flight envelope.
X1 launched flight testing within a controlled envelope focused on low-altitude, all-electric operations.
- PROPULSION
- 100% battery-electric100% battery-electric
- CRUISE SPEED
- 110 kts204 km/h
- ALTITUDE
- 2,000 ft. AGL610 m AGL
- MAX MANEUVER LOAD
- 1.5G1.5G
- FLIGHT CREW
- 1 Pilot1 Pilot
- TEST BASE
- KPBG PlattsburghKPBG Plattsburgh
Toward first flight.
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X1 is a full stack aircraft program.
There are no shortcuts to flight. By completing the full work of aircraft development with X1, Heart has built the foundation for ES-30.
Clean-sheet design
Designed a clean-sheet aircraft configured around electric propulsion and electrified systems, taking a novel airframe from first principles to flight.
Flight sciences
Validated novel aircraft geometry through simulation and physical testing, developing and verifying aerodynamics in-house.
Components
Developed core components - designing and building structures, systems, and parts for electric aviation at commercial scale.
Systems integration
Integrated aircraft systems, bringing electric propulsion, batteries, power electronics, flight controls, and avionics together into a flight-ready aircraft.
Structural test
Tested the airframe to its limits under real load conditions, verifying the structural design, build quality, and materials integrity required for safe flight.
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Propulsion test
Validated all-electric propulsion under flight mission conditions, verifying performance from motor to thrust and proving out propulsion architecture.
Flight test operations
Established flight test function, putting in place the people, procedures, and analytics required to safely fly and learn from Heart’s prototype aircraft.
Airworthiness
Earned FAA Special Airworthiness Certificate, establishing engagement model, compliance approach, and working relationship with the agency.
Flight
Set to fly the X1 demonstrator, taking the experimental aircraft airborne and bringing Heart’s full stack of aircraft development into the air.
Customer engagement
Activated airline customers, using the aircraft to deepen partner engagement, gather operational feedback, and accelerate commercial momentum.
Lower-cost air travel starts with a new kind of aircraft.
We are not just designing a new aircraft; we are engineering a fundamentally lower-cost model for aviation.
By combining electrification, software-defined systems, and modern manufacturing, Heart Aerospace is building aircraft designed to make air travel more economically sustainable at scale.
X1 is the proof. ES-30 is the product.
ES-30 is the 30-seat hybrid-electric regional aircraft X1 was designed to enable.
- PASSENGERS
- 30x30x
- LUGGAGE/PAX
- 55 lbs25 kg
- ALL ELECTRIC RANGE
- 125 mi200 km
- HYBRID RANGE
- 500 mi800 km
- CHARGING TIME
- 30 min30 min
- TYPE CERTIFICATION
- 20312031
