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MagniX

MagniX's De Havilland Dash 7 test airplane

MagniX shows off test airplane for NASA’s hybrid electric flight demonstration project

The airplane that Everett, Wash.-based magniX will use to test its hybrid electric propulsion system for a $74.3 million NASA… Read More

Podcast

How to be an ‘Uncommon Thinker’: What we learned profiling innovative leaders solving big problems

What does it take to create meaningful change in the modern world? A few ideas: Those are some of the… Read More

MagniX CTO Riona Armesmith at company headquarters in Everett, Wash.

Uncommon Thinkers: MagniX CTO Riona Armesmith geeks out over electric aviation

Editor’s note: This is part of a series profiling six of the Seattle region’s “Uncommon Thinkers”: inventors, scientists, technologists and entrepreneurs transforming… Read More

Tech Moves: Adaptive board member resigns; Tagboard exec steps down; and more

— Seattle biotech company Adaptive Biotechnologies Corp. disclosed in a SEC filing that Kevin Conroy has stepped down from his… Read More

Livery for X-66A research airplane

Boeing and NASA partner with Alaska and other airlines on eco-friendly X-66A aircraft

Boeing and NASA say they’ll collaborate with Seattle-based Alaska Airlines and four other major airlines on the Sustainable Flight Demonstrator… Read More

Hydrogen-powered aviation and sustainable fuel startups announce expansion plans in Washington

The Paris Air Show is taking place this week and the event kicked off with news from two sustainable aviation… Read More

Universal Hydrogen airplane during first flight

Hydrogen-powered airplane aces its first experimental flight in central Washington

A prototype aircraft with a hydrogen-fueled powertrain successfully completed an initial 15-minute flight today at Grant County International Airport in… Read More

Universal Hydrogen plane at Moses Lake airport

Hydrogen-fueled plane begins taxi testing in preparation for first flight in Moses Lake

Universal Hydrogen says its hydrogen-fueled test aircraft has won a key certification from regulators and has completed its first taxi… Read More

Hydrogen-powered motor on converted Dash 8 airplane

Powered by hydrogen: Experimental plane revs up for testing in Central Washington

Is hydrogen the green aviation fuel of the future? An industry team led by California-based Universal Hydrogen is testing out… Read More

Hydrogen-fueled Dash 8

MagniX branches out from electric aircraft propulsion to get into hydrogen as well

MagniX has been working on electric propulsion systems for years, but now the Everett, Wash.-based venture is adding hydrogen fuel… Read More

Tech Moves: F5 adds cybersecurity vet to board; Icertis hires chief strategy officer; and more

— Marianne Budnik joined the board of directors of Seattle-based application security and delivery giant F5. Budnik is currently chief… Read More

ATL-100H hybrid-electric airplane

MagniX partners with Brazil’s Desaer to develop hybrid-electric regional aircraft

Everett, Wash.-based MagniX is partnering with the Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Desaer to develop a hybrid-electric version of Desaer’s ATL-100 regional… Read More

Electric aviation executive Roei Ganzarski steps down from leadership roles at MagniX and Eviation

Roei Ganzarski, the former Boeing manager who went on to give a boost to all-electric aviation, is leaving his executive… Read More

MagniX test plane

MagniX wins $74.3 million from NASA to demonstrate electric aviation technologies

Everett, Wash.-based MagniX will be getting $74.3 million from NASA over the next five years to demonstrate electric propulsion technologies… Read More

MagniX inks deal to retrofit seaplanes with electric motors for Blade flights around NYC and Hamptons

Everett, Wash.-based MagniX will provide electric aircraft motors to power Cessna seaplanes flying between Nantucket, the Hamptons and downtown New… Read More

Electric seaplane flight test

Swiss battery venture teams up with magniX and Harbour Air on electric plane

One of the pioneers of battery-powered aviation is joining a Pacific Northwest team that’s aiming to get an all-electric seaplane… Read More

MagniX moves electric aircraft engine production to new 40K square-foot headquarters north of Seattle

MagniX, the electric aircraft engine builder, has moved into a 40,000-square-foot manufacturing building in an industrial park just north of… Read More

Electric aircraft motor company MagniX lands deal to power UK startup’s planned 300-plane fleet

A Seattle-area company has been picked to provide the electric motors for a proposed fleet of 300 aircraft to be… Read More

Hydrogen-fueled Dash 8

MagniX teams up with Universal Hydrogen for electric airplane conversion project

Redmond, Wash.-based MagniX says it’s partnering with a Los Angeles startup called Universal Hydrogen to retrofit 40-passenger regional aircraft with… Read More

Roei Ganzarski and MagniX all-electric airplane

MagniX and AeroTEC put all-electric Cessna airplane into the air for first time

An all-electric version of one of the world’s best-known small utility airplanes hummed through its first flight today at Moses… Read More

Vote for the Pacific Northwest’s best innovation at the GeekWire Awards

Editor’s note: The GeekWire Awards are now virtual on July 23. Watch live below. The Pacific Northwest’s status as an… Read More

Harbour Air test flight

Harbour Air’s all-electric seaplane makes its first flight, sparking a quiet buzz in B.C.

The cheers seemed louder than the motor when Harbour Air’s all-electric seaplane made its first flight over the Fraser River… Read More

The electric aviation revolution will be televised … by MagniX and Harbour Air

Update for 3:20 p.m. PT Dec. 8: The first test flight of Harbour Air’s electric-powered seaplane is currently scheduled for… Read More

Magnix revs up electric motors for Harbour Air seaplane flight tests in December

Redmond, Wash.-based MagniX, which aims to become the Tesla of aviation, is gearing up for the first flight tests of… Read More

Tech Moves: MagniX CEO named chair of Israeli electric plane venture; Cascadia Capital hires managing director

— Roei Ganzarski, the CEO of Redmond, Wash.-based electric propulsion startup MagniX, is the new chairman of the board at… Read More

Magni500 motor

MagniX revs up 750HP all-electric motor in preparation for first test flights in B.C.

The Magni500 sounds just about as loud as you’d expect for an airplane engine — but technically speaking, this is… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Working in video games; the latest findings on sleep; and more

— Working in video games is something lots of young (and not so young) people aspire to do. But it… Read More

Eviation unveils electric airplane and plans flight tests in central Washington state

An Israeli startup called Eviation Aircraft unveiled its first prototype electric airplane today at the International Paris Air Show, with… Read More

Eviation Alice airplane

Eviation picks MagniX to provide a propulsion option for all-electric airplane

Eviation says it has selected Redmond, Wash.-based MagniX to become a propulsion system provider for its Alice all-electric airplane, a… Read More

Harbour Air DHC-2 de Havilland Beaver

MagniX and Vancouver’s Harbour Air team up to test all-electric plane for B.C. flights

Two Pacific Northwest companies — MagniX, an electric propulsion venture headquartered in Redmond, Wash.; and Harbour Air Seaplanes, an airline… Read More

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