01 — Passenger commute
Fly over the traffic.
Point-to-point flights between vertiports, with fares targeted close to an app-booked sedan taxi.
Seahorse Air Ceylon · Advanced Air Mobility
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Air travel for everyone. Everywhere.
The world's first passenger VTOL aircraft with hydraulic propulsion — lifting off from Sri Lanka's cities, coasts and waters on liquid fuel, not heavy batteries.
1 + 6Pilot + passengers
540 kmRange · SH18LC
16Lift rotors
Land + waterVertical take-off
Our mission
Liquid fuel. Hydraulic power. Sixteen rotors. One idea — that flying across Sri Lanka should feel as ordinary as booking a taxi.
540km
Maximum range of the winged SH18LC on a single fuelling.
≈40%
Lighter than a comparable battery-powered aircraft.
3–4×
The range of today's battery eVTOLs.
24
Planned vertiports across the island in two stages.
Interactive · 3D
Walk around the aircraft. Right here.
Drag to rotate the engineering model, then select the glowing points to see what makes each Seahorse aircraft different.
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Initialising
Two aircraft · One platform
Built for every journey across the island.
Both aircraft seat a pilot and six passengers with luggage and share the same hydraulic propulsion. Choose the wing for distance, or go wingless for agility — and water.
Technology
Liquid fuel, not batteries.
Our patented Distributed Digital Displacement Hydraulic Propulsion turns engine power into hydraulic pressure that drives sixteen rotors. The aircraft ends up around 40% lighter than a battery equivalent — with three to four times the range.
- Refuels in minutes instead of hours on a charger.
- Engine-flexible — Rotax, Toyota or Kawasaki power, with hydrogen fuel cells on the roadmap.
- Twin-engine redundancy — it can keep flying, or land vertically, on one engine.
Missions
One aircraft. Four ways to serve.
Passengers by day, medical evacuation at a moment's notice, cargo for the low-altitude economy and rescue at sea — the same multi-role craft does it all.
All missions02 — Cargo & e-commerce
Deliver in minutes, not days.
Urgent logistics, perishables and medical supplies to beaches, riverbanks and floating platforms.
03 — Air ambulance
Every minute counts.
Vertical access to confined, rugged or damaged areas with no runway — and to patients at sea.
04 — Search & rescue
Land where the need is.
Precise deployment over coasts and flood zones, with the ability to land on water beside people in need.
Network
24 vertiports. One island, minutes apart.
We start with twelve Stage 1 vertiports on high-traffic coastal and urban routes, then grow to a 24-site network linking every corner of Sri Lanka.
Stage 1Stage 2
Colombo → Galle
Latest milestones
Agreements, signings & ceremonies.
Government, universities and industry are joining the journey.
A national partnership
Impact
Designed in partnership. Assembled in Sri Lanka.
JOBS
≈15,000
Direct and indirect jobs across aviation, manufacturing, engineering and services.
INVESTMENT
$300M
Estimated foreign direct investment for aircraft manufacturing and a new export industry.
ASSEMBLY
100%
Final assembly, testing and licensing in Sri Lanka — a Product of Sri Lanka for home and export.
Join the journey
Shape the future of flight in Sri Lanka.
Investors, partners, vertiport hosts and future pilots — we'd like to hear from you.
Next — The fleet
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