Horizon Aircraft

Summary

About

About Horizon Aircraft

Horizon Aircraft was co-founded in 2013 by Brandon and Brian Robinson in Lindsay, Ontario. The company tested sub-scale and 50%-scale Cavorite demonstrators before completing untethered, wing-borne and full-wing transition milestones; it listed on Nasdaq in 2024 and locked the full-scale X7 outer mould line in January 2026 as the programme moved from design into manufacturing.

The Cavorite X7 places electrically driven lift fans inside the wing and closes their covers for low-drag forward flight powered by a hybrid system. Horizon advertises one pilot plus six passengers, 680 kg payload, up to 800 km range and 460 km/h maximum speed, while noting that the aircraft shown remains a large-scale prototype. The architecture is intended to preserve runway flexibility and long range without external charging. Manufacturing and systems partners now cover the fuselage, wings, flight controls and development support, but certification and full-scale flight testing remain ahead.

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Operations

Operating milestones

  • Operating milestone

    2025-05-01 - Horizon records a full-wing transition flight by its large-scale Cavorite prototype in May 2025.

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Supply

Supply chain relationships

  • BETA Technologies

    Inbound - Flight Controls - BETA supplies flight-control computers and customized fly-by-wire software for Horizon Cavorite X7

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Financials

  • HOVR - NASDAQ - USD

Team

  • E. Brandon Robinson - Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer - Co-founder and chief executive
  • E. Brian Robinson - Co-Founder and Chief Aircraft Architect - Co-founder and chief aircraft architect
  • Tom Brassington - Chief Technology Officer - Technical leadership
  • Jason O’Neill - Chief Operating Officer - Operations leadership
  • Brian Merker - Chief Financial Officer - Finance leadership
  • Stewart Lee - Head of People and Strategy - People and strategy leadership
  • Phil Kelly - Senior Vice President, Business Development - Business development leadership

Timeline

Events

  • 2026-07-09 - Partnership - Horizon selects BETA flight controls for Cavorite X7

    Horizon will integrate BETA flight-control computers and customized fly-by-wire software into the full-scale Cavorite X7 during development, testing and certification. BETA says the VTOL-specific platform combines safety-critical software, system redundancy and a flexible architecture, with hardware designed to DAL-A development rigor. Horizon will use the same flight-control computer hardware as BETA's own aircraft fleet, providing shared manufacturing scale and component-cost benefits.

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Context

Context tags

  • Hybrid-electric VTOL aircraft builder - Peer Group - Horizon develops the complete hybrid-electric Cavorite X7 VTOL aircraft. https://www.horizonaircraft.com/the-aircraft/
  • Regional air mobility aircraft - Workflow - Horizon positions Cavorite X7 for regional passenger, medevac, cargo, search-and-rescue and defence missions. https://www.horizonaircraft.com/
  • eVTOL OEM layer - Stack Layer - Horizon designs and builds a complete VTOL aircraft system. https://www.horizonaircraft.com/the-aircraft/