Horizon Aircraft (NASDAQ: HOVR) says it has completed all platform and system Preliminary Design Reviews (PDRs) for the Cavorite X7, its full-scale hybrid-electric VTOL demonstrator. The Toronto-area company made the announcement on November 10.
Horizon says a panel of aerospace experts oversaw the reviews. The panel concluded that once the remaining action items are closed, the design is mature enough to move on to detailed design. The company is now releasing Cavorite X7 designs for manufacturing while it works through those items, and expects to start the releases before the end of the year.
The next formal step is a Critical Design Review (CDR), which Horizon says will happen before final assembly of the demonstrator begins.
Chief Technology Officer Tom Brassington said the team “approached PDR with certification in mind, not just first flight of our demonstrator aircraft,” and called the extra engineering work an investment in a shorter, smoother path to certification.
The Cavorite X7 is designed to fly most of its mission on its wings like a conventional aircraft. Horizon is targeting regional operators, emergency services and military customers. The release did not give a date for the demonstrator’s first flight.
Source: Horizon Aircraft via ACCESS Newswire, November 10, 2026.
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