Mesa Air Group plans to buy 200 electric seagliders from Boston start-up Regent to establish new direct, city-to-city coastal routes in the US.
Regent, a Boston startup making electric seagliders, has raised $18 million in fresh venture funding from Thiel Capital, JAM Fund, Mesa Air Group and others.
Mesa Air Group CEO Jonathan Ornstein says his company plans to purchase 200 of Regent's fast-flying, 12-passenger seagliders to establish new city-to-city direct routes on the coasts.are investing in Regent, a start-up building electric seagliders that can fly low over the water at a top speed of 180 miles per hour.
Regent's seagliders should also be able to fly to islands and coastal hubs where airports are inadequate, non-existent, or when infrastructure has taken a hit due to a natural disaster. Because they can fly low under a fog line, unlike helicopters, the company is developing prototypes with an interior fit for emergency medical transportation with capacity to hold equipment, and patients on stretchers, safely in place.
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