Zuri.com - VTOL airplane

04/06/2026

On Friday our CMO Robert Demmer presented Zuri's role in VITOLMINS at EUSPA - EU Agency for the Space Programme in Prague, during a visit by the European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy.

Zuri is building a hybrid-electric tiltrotor aircraft for regional air mobility. Six seats. It takes off like a helicopter, flies like a plane, with a range of around 700 kilometres. For passengers, cargo, medical missions, and defense.

VITOLMINS, a Horizon Europe project, works out how aircraft like ours can take off and land safely, in any weather, at vertiports and existing airports, using Europe's own space programme: Galileo, EGNOS, and Copernicus. Honeywell is developing the navigation. Zuri provides the aircraft.

It will all be integrated into our full-scale demonstrator, Technology Demonstrator 2.0, which makes its first flight at the end of this year, then validated in flight in the Czech Republic in 2027.

A European aircraft, using European satellites, European data, and European standards.

02/06/2026

The display aircraft we showed this spring was never meant to fly. It is a stand-in for the one that will.

Our Technology Demonstrator 2.0 is being built now in Prague, and makes its first flight later this year, flown unmanned. It is a hybrid-electric tiltrotor, built that way on purpose: hybrid gives it the range and flexibility that battery eVTOLs give up, which is what regional distances need.

https://zuri.com/news/zuri-display-aircraft-aero-friedrichshafen-maker-faire-prague

27/05/2026

Inside our Prague workshop. Building test rigs and performing systems integration testing for the Zuri Technology Demonstrator 2.0.

25/05/2026

"Zuri Advances Hybrid Tiltrotor Demonstrator 2.0." AVIATION WEEK, May 2026. Ben Goldstein on Zuri's program: assembly progress, full-power propulsion test, path to first flight.
https://aviationweek.com/aerospace/advanced-air-mobility/zuri-advances-hybrid-tiltrotor-demonstrator-20

24/05/2026

Michal Illich, zakladatel a CEO Zuri, byl hostem 350. dílu CZ Podcastu.

Mluví o aktuálním vývoji Zuri Hybrid VTOL, vývoji softwaru a hardwaru i o své cestě od Jyxa přes WebExpo až po regionální leteckou mobilitu.

Poslechněte si celý díl zde: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1t12OImdmYP5VE9Fsn0I8X

The episode is in Czech. Zuri founder and CEO Michal Illich discusses the latest progress at Zuri Hybrid VTOL, software and hardware development, and his path from Jyxo and WebExpo to regional air mobility.

CZPodcast · Episode

22/05/2026

Zuri Technology Demonstrator 2.0 is being built in Prague. Before it flies, we wanted to share it with the public. The display aircraft was unveiled at AERO Friedrichshafen and shown again at Maker Faire Prague.

19/05/2026

A new eVTOL Daily breakdown: 30 minutes on Zuri's Technology Demonstrator 2.0 and the hybrid VTOL case beyond the all-electric platforms from Joby and Archer.

Watch: https://www.youtube.com/live/x6R0kLSyHGA

Michal Illich joins Martyn Lucas and Vaz for a live YouTube Q&A on Thursday May 21 at 18:30 CEST.

Bring your questions: https://www.youtube.com/live/TwjaNn_PZ9Q

15/05/2026

TD 2.0, our second technology demonstrator, just got one major piece closer to first flight.

Inspection is underway at our Prague workshop. Bench testing follows.

13/05/2026

Maker Faire Prague is wrapped. Thank you to everyone who came by, photographed our display aircraft, tried the simulator, and asked questions.

It was the second public showing of the TD 2.0 display aircraft after AERO Friedrichshafen. The best parts were the conversations.

Thanks to the Maker Faire Česká republika team for putting it on.

Photos by Alena Dontova Photography.

08/05/2026

This weekend at Maker Faire Prague. Take the controls of our hybrid VTOL in VR. Our aircraft is right next to the simulator.

Sat 10–18, Sun 10–16.
Outdoor zone, main entrance.

Maker Faire Česká republika