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Volocopter believes it remains on track to receive regulatory approval of its VoloXPro eVTOL later this year under EASA’s Light Sport Aircraft category. The German company is seeking to bring the ‘slimmed down’ version of its eVTOL design to market as it endeavors to achieve full type certification of the two-seat VoloCity aircraft.
The VoloCity program was delayed due to the threat of bankruptcy in late 2024 and the company is now trying to get back on track following its acquisition by the Chinese parent company of Austria-based Diamond Aircraft in March 2025. Late last year, its new owners acknowledged deficiencies in the existing Volocopter setup and has been seeking to restructure the venture.
Diamond Aircraft CEO David Bausek told AIN that the outcome of Volocopter’s insolvency process had put it in “a better position to restructure and reorganise than if we’d been the tender in the intervention.”
Over the next 15 to 20 years, Bausek predicted that the proliferation of vertiports at smaller airports will transform the general aviation sector and create positive synergies for Diamond’s product range. “We can combine the range of the Diamond [fixed-wing] aircraft and the [vertical take off capabilities] of Volocopter into one product, and basically fuse everything.”
For the time being, however, “our idea is very clear: finish the project,” clarified Bausek. With a consolidated team centralized at Bruschal, southwest Germany, Volocopter believes its vertically-integrated approach is also essential to future iterations of the product.
“The idea is we make ourselves capable as an independent organization,” explained Bausek, adding that the new subsidiary is committed to Diamond’s ethos of “bringing aviation to everybody.”
