Flight testingNot type-certified (full-scale X7 in manufacture)Fan-in-wingHybrid
Horizon Aircraft
Cavorite X7
Fan-in-wing hybrid; 1 pilot + 6
Canadian hybrid fan-in-wing. Official aircraft page: 1+6, 800 km with reserves, 1,450 km ferry, 450 km/h max cruise, 680 kg VTOL useful load (815 kg CTOL), 15 m span. Sliding panels cover the fans in cruise. No EIS date published. Not type-certified. Maker quotes 460 km/h max speed and $0.97 cost per available seat mile (500-mile use). Figures are maker estimates based on CFD.
- Range
- 800 km with reserves
(varies with speed, reserves, and how the pilot flies the mission).
- Payload
- 680 kg VTOL useful
- Cruise
- 450 km/h
(chosen by the pilot, and traded against range and endurance).
- Top speed
- 460 km/h (Horizon max speed; CFD-based estimate)
- Flight time
- Not published
(varies with the speed the pilot selects and the reserves kept for the mission).
- Price
- Not published
- Empty weight
- Not published
- MTOW
- Not published
- Ceiling
- Not published
- Seats
- 6 + pilot
- Battery / fuel
- Hybrid-electric: burns fuel (gas + electric power system; no ground charging); 12 electric HOVR lift fans; not all-electric
- Size
- 15 m span · 11.6 m long · 2.8 m tall
- Charge
- No ground charging
- First flight
- Large-scale prototype: transition flights May 2025. Full-scale X7 not yet flown.
- Entry into service
- Not published
Full figures
- Seats
- 1 pilot + 6
- Range
- 800 km with reserves; 1,450 km ferry
- Cruise
- 450 km/h max cruise
- Payload
- 680 kg VTOL / 815 kg CTOL
- Power
- hybrid-electric, gas + electric (burns fuel); no ground charging
- Lift fans
- 12 HOVR fans, covered by sliding wing panels in cruise
- Size
- 15 × 11.6 × 2.8 m
For
- 800 km range with reserves (1,450 km ferry)
- Six-passenger cabin plus a 680 kg VTOL useful load
Against
- Hybrid, not pure electric
- No EIS date; not type-certified