{"id":24614503,"date":"2026-09-25T10:58:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T08:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/bye-aerospace-eflyer-2-first-flight-centennial-airport-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T10:59:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T08:59:31","slug":"bye-aerospace-eflyer-2-first-flight-centennial-airport-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/bye-aerospace-eflyer-2-first-flight-centennial-airport-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"eFlyer 2 Flies at Centennial: Bye Aerospace Starts Flight Tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\r\n\r\n<p>On Thursday a two-seat trainer took off from Centennial Airport near Denver, flew a planned test profile and landed. Nothing about that is remarkable except what was not happening: no fuel burn, no exhaust, and no engine overhaul clock ticking.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Bye Aerospace has flown the eFlyer 2, its all-electric trainer, with chief test pilot Elliot Seguin at the controls. The company is calling it the first flight, and it opens the aircraft&rsquo;s formal flight test programme on the road to FAA certification.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>One clarification is worth making, because it says something about how long this has taken. An eFlyer 2 prototype first left the ground back in April 2018, and flew in something close to production configuration in February 2019. What flew on Thursday is the aircraft that matters for certification, and the eight-year gap between the two is the real story of electric aviation.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f1f3f6;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:18px 22px;margin:26px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 10px;font-weight:700;color:#0d1117;font-size:17px\">Quick Facts<\/p><ul style=\"margin:0;padding-left:20px;font-size:15px;line-height:1.7;color:#333\"><li style=\"margin:0 0 6px\"><strong>Aircraft:<\/strong> Bye Aerospace eFlyer 2, an all-electric two-seat training aircraft<\/li><li style=\"margin:0 0 6px\"><strong>Flight:<\/strong> 24 September 2026, from Centennial Airport near Denver, Colorado<\/li><li style=\"margin:0 0 6px\"><strong>Pilot:<\/strong> Elliot Seguin, Bye Aerospace chief test pilot<\/li><li style=\"margin:0 0 6px\"><strong>Motor:<\/strong> A single Safran electric motor, in the ENGINeUS family, rated around 90 kW<\/li><li style=\"margin:0 0 6px\"><strong>Energy:<\/strong> Lithium-ion packs totalling about 92 kWh<\/li><li style=\"margin:0 0 6px\"><strong>Endurance:<\/strong> Approximately 3.5 hours<\/li><li style=\"margin:0 0 6px\"><strong>Maximum speed:<\/strong> Around 135 knots<\/li><li style=\"margin:0 0 6px\"><strong>Company claim:<\/strong> Up to 80 per cent lower operating costs and no in-flight emissions<\/li><li style=\"margin:0 0 6px\"><strong>Certification target:<\/strong> FAR Part 23<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The number that sells it<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>Flight training economics are dominated by two things nobody can control: the price of avgas and the cost of overhauling a piston engine. An electric trainer removes both. There is no fuel bill in the conventional sense, no oil change, no cylinder work, no time-between-overhaul countdown. Bye Aerospace claims up to 80 per cent lower operating costs, and while manufacturer figures deserve scepticism, the direction is not in doubt.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>That matters because the global shortage of pilots is at least partly a shortage of affordable hours. A flight school that can cut the cost of a training hour substantially changes who can afford to learn.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #1565c0;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;The first flight of eFlyer 2 exceeded all of our expectations in terms of aerodynamics, handling, propulsion and overall performance, and there were no maintenance discrepancies during the flight.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Rod Zastrow<\/strong> &mdash; Chief Executive Officer, Bye Aerospace<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Seguin, who flew it, was more measured about what a first flight actually proves. He described it as validating the work the engineering team had put in over several years, and noted that first flights are significant moments any team remembers. Neither man claimed the aircraft is finished. A first flight opens a test programme; it does not close one.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/centennial-airport-apron-denver-colorado.jpg\" alt=\"The general aviation apron at Centennial Airport near Denver, Colorado\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">Centennial Airport near Denver, where the eFlyer 2 flew its first test profile. It is one of the busiest general aviation fields in the United States, and a natural home for a trainer programme. Photo: Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The problem nobody has solved<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>Endurance. An eFlyer 2 is quoted at about three and a half hours, which is genuinely useful for circuits and local training sorties, and useless for a cross-country navigation exercise with reserves in a headwind. Batteries store roughly a fiftieth of the energy per kilogram that kerosene does, and no amount of clever engineering closes that gap.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Then there is the charging infrastructure, which barely exists at general aviation fields, and the question of battery life. A training aircraft flies many short cycles a day, and cycling is exactly what wears a lithium-ion pack. The economic case depends heavily on how often those packs need replacing, and that is a number nobody will know properly until a fleet has been in service for years.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Pipistrel has been here first. Its Velis Electro became the world&rsquo;s first type-certificated electric aircraft in 2020, and it flies today at European flight schools with around an hour of endurance. It proved the concept works and simultaneously demonstrated its limits. The eFlyer 2, if it certifies with the endurance Bye claims, would be a meaningful step beyond that.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>If. The aircraft has been in development for more than a decade, has changed motor supplier along the way, and has now flown its conforming prototype. The next few years of flight testing will decide whether electric training aircraft become a category or stay a demonstration.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zmYUOxldKAA\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:-10px;font-style:italic\">Bye Aerospace&rsquo;s own footage of the flight, posted the same day. It is currently the only public moving image of the aircraft that flew.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><em>Sources: Bye Aerospace press release via afm.aero; FLYING Magazine; FlightGlobal; Wikipedia for development chronology and specifications. Note on imagery: no freely licensed photograph of the eFlyer 2 is available, so the aircraft pictured above is a Pipistrel Velis Electro and is captioned as such; the embedded video shows the actual aircraft.<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<style>.mfq{margin:34px 0 8px}.mfq h2{font:26px\/1.3 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117;padding-top:22px;margin:0 0 6px}.mfq .qa details{border-top:1px solid #5C91FF;margin:0;padding:0}.mfq .qa details:last-of-type{border-bottom:1px solid #e2e7ee}.mfq .qa summary{cursor:pointer;list-style:none;display:flex;justify-content:space-between;align-items:center;gap:16px;padding:22px 26px;font:18px\/1.7 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117}.mfq .qa summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}.mfq .qa summary::after{content:\"+\";font:24px Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#3568e0;flex:0 0 auto}.mfq .qa details[open] summary::after{content:\"\\2013\"}.mfq .qa details:hover summary{color:#3568e0}.mfq .qa .a{font:16px\/1.7 \"Gilroy regular\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#454e5e;padding:0 26px 24px}.mfq .qa .a a{color:#3568e0}@media(max-width:680px){.mfq .qa summary{padding:18px 14px;font-size:17px}.mfq .qa .a{padding:0 14px 20px}}<\/style>\r\n\r\n\r\n<section class=\"mfq\"><h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2><div class=\"qa\"><details open><summary>What is the Bye Aerospace eFlyer 2?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">It is an all-electric two-seat training aircraft built by Bye Aerospace of Colorado, aimed at flight schools. It uses a Safran electric motor of roughly 90 kW and lithium-ion packs totalling about 92 kWh, and is being developed towards FAR Part 23 certification.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>When did the eFlyer 2 first fly?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The conforming aircraft flew on 24 September 2026 from Centennial Airport near Denver, opening the formal flight test programme. An earlier prototype flew in April 2018 and a near-production configuration followed in February 2019, so the programme has been airborne in some form for years.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>How long can the eFlyer 2 stay airborne?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Approximately 3.5 hours, which suits circuits and local training sorties. It is far less useful for long cross-country exercises with reserves, because batteries store roughly a fiftieth of the energy per kilogram that aviation fuel does.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>How much cheaper is an electric trainer to operate?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Bye Aerospace claims up to 80 per cent lower operating costs. Electric aircraft avoid fuel bills, oil changes, cylinder work and engine overhaul reserves, though the real figure depends heavily on how often battery packs must be replaced, which fleet experience has not yet established.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Is there already a certified electric aircraft?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Yes. The Pipistrel Velis Electro became the world&amp;rsquo;s first type-certificated electric aircraft in 2020 and flies at European flight schools today, with around an hour of endurance. It proved the concept and also demonstrated the endurance limits electric trainers face.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Who flew the eFlyer 2 on its first flight?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Elliot Seguin, Bye Aerospace&amp;rsquo;s chief test pilot. He flew the planned test profile from Centennial Airport, allowing an initial evaluation of handling qualities, aerodynamic characteristics and system performance to support the next phase of testing.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>What are the biggest obstacles to electric flight training?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Energy density, charging infrastructure and battery life. Training aircraft fly many short cycles a day, and cycling is what wears lithium-ion packs. 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