Miami-based Global Crossing Airlines Group (GlobalX) has signed a letter-of-intent (LOI) for 50 all-electric Eviation Alice aircraft as part of plans to introduce sustainable services for growing markets in Florida, the Bahamas and around the Caribbean.
Passenger ACMI and charter carrier GlobalX, which also operates Airbus A320s, expects to take the first Alice in 2027. The airline is also evaluating the cargo version of the electric aircraft as part of a broader expansion into the ACMI freight market which is due to begin later this year with the introduction of the first of 15 leased A321Fs.
The GlobalX announcement comes as Eviation prepares to conduct the first flight of the prototype Alice from Moses Lake, Washington. The 16,500-lb. Alice is a clean-sheet nine-passenger aircraft designed to fly 440 nm on an 8,300-lb. battery pack and two 640-kW MagniX motors. The freighter variant will have 450 ft.3 of cargo capacity and be capable of carrying 2,600 lb., at a maximum cruise speed of 220 kt.
The newest deal follows the recent formalization of an earlier LOI from U.S. regional airline Cape Air for 72 Alice aircraft, which was first announced at the Paris Air Show in 2019. In August 2021, Eviation also revealed an order from DHL Express for 12 freighter variants.
Preparations for the first flight are underway at AeroTEC’s flight test center in Moses Lake following the relocation of the prototype from Eviation’s assembly facility at Arlington, Washington, where high speed taxi tests were conducted earlier in 2022.
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