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type certificate. Noertker notes that the company is
also working with maintenance, repair, and overhaul
bases in a partnership model to make sure the maintenance
side is also as streamlined as possible.
Noertker says, " It will be less expensive to operate
specifically because we have over 50 percent fuel
savings on the engines, and we expect that the maintenance
costs will be lower as well, " even with the added
complexity of a parallel electric system.
The company started in 2016 in Temecula,
California. " That was where we could find a free
garage from my co-founder's parents, " says Noertker.
" It's where we built our first prototypes. " Before
founding Ampaire, Noertker earned a degree in
mechanical engineering at CalTech and conducted
robotics research at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
before joining Northrop Grumman for stealth technology
research and development. He credits his time
at Northrop for teaching him how to develop " very
advanced technologies " but in a way that viewed the
" life cycle of a system, " which thus informed his strategies
at Ampaire.
The hybrid approach means Ampaire can blaze
a trail with available technology, rather than waiting
for battery technology to catch up to dreams and
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desires, as some other companies that are still seemingly
committed to being fully electric are. " You think
about charging infrastructure, range anxiety, the economics
of operations. These are the things that we're
able to overcome, battery energy density as an example,
by bringing these hybrid propulsion systems to
market. So, where we focus our day-to-day is about
maturing those systems, " says Noertker.
Noertker has been careful to keep the company
lean-Ampaire has a worldwide staff of 20 (most in
the United States, one in the U.K., and one in China)-
and not to grow too quickly and not to over-promise
(weren't we supposed to have flying Ubers by now...?).
Ampaire has hit major milestones, starting with the
first flight in June 2019, test runs in Hawaii, Scotland,
and Alaska, and then a record-breaking endurance
flight of 12 hours with two hours reserve in 2023, and
more than 30,000 collective miles flown.
In the air
After moving to downtown Los Angeles, then a fiveyear
stint at the Hawthorne airport (HHR) " in the
shadow of SpaceX, " Ampaire found a new home at
Long Beach Daugherty Field (LGB) in Long Beach,
California in April 2024. Long Beach is where the bulk
Ampaire's fleet
consists of two
Skymasters and
its Eco Caravan.
The Skymasters
have one electric
motor and one
traditional engine.
The Eco Caravan,
however, uses a
parallel system in
its powerplant that
is reflective of what
Ampaire will bring
to market with the
AmpDrive H570.

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