Product profile
Cavorite X7
Cavorite X7 is Horizon Aircraft's seven-seat hybrid-electric vertical-lift aircraft. Twelve wing-integrated lift fans support vertical flight, while closed...
Facts
- Company
- Horizon Aircraft
- Product type
- piloted_aircraft
- Status
- prototype
- Primary capability
- Regional transport
- Website
- https://www.horizonaircraft.com/the-aircraft/
About Cavorite X7
Cavorite X7 is Horizon Aircraft's seven-seat hybrid-electric vertical-lift aircraft for regional passenger, cargo, medical and emergency missions. Twelve electrically driven fans inside the wings and canards provide vertical lift; their covers close for wing-borne cruise powered by a conventional propeller.
The design also supports runway take-off and landing, allowing operators to trade vertical access for additional payload. Horizon projects a 450-kilometre-per-hour maximum cruise speed, 800-kilometre range with reserves and a 680-kilogram VTOL payload. These figures are engineering estimates, and the aircraft remains in development following flight work with a large-scale prototype.
Market context
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Summary
Type: Hybrid aircraft
Core: Electric lift fans
Function: Regional transport
Audience: Air operators
Specifications
- designed_operating_conditions
- Designed for IFR, VFR and flight into known icing conditions
- estimated_cost_per_seat_mile_usd
- US$0.97 modeled cost per available seat-mile USD/seat-mile
- ferry_range
- 1,450 km maximum ferry range km
- height_m
- 2.8 m m
- length
- 11.6 m m
- lift_fan_count
- 12 wing-integrated hover fans fans
- max_range
- 800 km with reserves km
- max_speed_kmh
- 450 km/h maximum cruise speed km/h
- mission_payload_kg
- Approximately 450 kg mission payload after fuel and pilot kg
- operation_modes
- Vertical and conventional runway operation
- payload_capacity_ctol_kg
- 815 kg conventional takeoff and landing useful payload kg
- payload_capacity_vtol_kg
- 680 kg VTOL useful payload kg
- powertrain
- Hybrid-electric: gas and electric
- prototype_hover_fan_failure_tolerance_percent
- Large-scale prototype hovered with 30% of lift fans disabled percent
- seating_capacity
- Seven seats: one pilot and six passengers seats
- wingspan_m
- 15 m m
Operations
- Environment
- civil airspace, regional routes, runways and vertiports
- Primary user
- regional aviation operators, passenger and cargo operators
- Role
- regional passenger and cargo transport
- Interaction model
- piloted aircraft
- Mobility class
- hybrid-electric VTOL aircraft
- Product detail
- piloted_aircraft, 1600, Published performance figures are modeled estimates for a large-scale prototype., 900, 86f5d4968e56fcd8b5743bdb37c42add19f70956ebad05773c545307c08ae5ea, Hybrid-Electric Aircraft, Piloted passenger and cargo aircraft; not an unmanned aerial vehicle or drone., advanced_air_mobility, existing_category_first, https://www.horizonaircraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Cavorite-X7-Closed-Wings.jpg, piloted_hybrid_electric_aircraft_prototype, https://www.horizonaircraft.com/m...
Research, Articles and recent verified events
- Horizon selects BETA flight controls for Cavorite X7 — 2026-07-09