Regional plane producer ATR, Swedish airline Braathens Regional Airways and sustainable aviation gas (SAF) provider Neste collaborated to allow the primary 100% SAF-powered take a look at flight on a industrial regional plane. When utilized in neat type, Neste MY Sustainable Aviation Gas reduces greenhouse gasoline emissions over its life cycle by as much as 80% in comparison with fossil jet gas use.
The take a look at flight happened in Sweden and is a part of the 100% sustainable aviation gas (SAF) certification strategy of ATR plane that began in September 2021 in cooperation with Braathens and Neste and needs to be accomplished by 2025. It has been the newest in a sequence of profitable floor and flight checks on the ATR 72-600 prototype plane carried out originally of 2022, together with flights with 100% SAF in a single engine. This newest take a look at was the primary time it was completed with 100% SAF in each engines.
Chief ATR pilot Cyril Cizabuiroz, Jean-Marie Marre, co-pilot, and Pascal Daussin, Flight Check Mechanic, flew the Braathens’ plane from Malmö, a coastal metropolis in southern Sweden to Bromma close to Stockholm, which took round 1 hour and 20 minutes. The outcomes of the flight can be analyzed and launched at a later date.
Reaching the milestone was additionally made doable by Swedavia enabling the SAF to be uplifted to the ATR plane at Malmö airport and Pratt & Whitney, carefully working along with ATR and Braathens within the preparations of this milestone flight.
This milestone affirms the chance that SAF performs within the aviation trade and is indicative of the robust dedication Pratt & Whitney has made to powering extra sustainable aviation. We have now labored carefully with ATR and Braathens to make sure at this time’s profitable flight take a look at with 100% SAF.
—Maria Della Posta, president of Pratt & Whitney Canada
ATR is the world’s main regional plane producer with its ATR 42 and 72 plane the best-selling plane within the lower than 90-seat market section. With the effectivity of turboprop know-how and the advantages of the corporate’s concentrate on steady innovation, ATR plane open greater than 100 new routes on common yearly, burn as much as 40% much less gas and emit as much as 40% much less CO2 than regional jets. ATR is a three way partnership between Airbus and Leonardo.
