“Zero-emission air transport – first flight of four-seat passenger aircraft HY4”

The world’s first four-seat passenger aircraft powered solely by a hydrogen fuel cell system took off on its first official flight from Stuttgart Airport, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) announced in a press release. The HY4 flies without generating any emissions. While large passenger aircrafts will continue to run on conventional fuels for a while, "our goal is to further improve the fuel cell power train and, in the long term, use it on regional aircraft with up to 19 passengers,” said André Thess, Head of the DLR Institute of Engineering Thermodynamics. The HY4 fuel cell aircraft was developed by the DLR together with partners Hydrogenics, Pipistrel, H2FLY, the University of Ulm and Stuttgart Airport.

Read the press release in English here.