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Heart Aerospace is an electric aviation company founded in 2018 in Sweden and now headquartered in Los Angeles, California, developing the ES-30, a 30-passenger hybrid-electric regional aircraft targeting 2031 commercial certification. The company’s X1 full-scale demonstrator received FAA Special Airworthiness Certification for piloted flight testing at Plattsburgh, New York in July 2026 — the largest electric aircraft ever cleared to fly.
Heart’s ES-30 order pipeline exceeds $9 billion, including agreements with United Airlines and Air Canada. Investors include EQT Ventures, Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Mesa Airlines and United Airlines Ventures.