Oaxaca Aerospace has built the first 100% made-in-Mexico plane

Mexican manufacturing institution Oaxaca Aerospace has announced plans to bring the first-ever 100% made-in-Mexico aircraft, the Pegasus PE-210A, to marketplace by adjacent year.

“We volition statesman manufacturing the archetypal craft based connected [clients’] orders, to beryllium delivered wrong 12 months,” Raúl Fernández, president of Oaxaca Aerospace, said during the aircraft’s authoritative presumption astatine the Mexican Aerospace Fair (Famex) 2025, held astatine the Santa Lucía Air Base successful Mexico City past week. 

The all-Mexican-made craft features a tandem cockpit configuration wherever passengers are seated 1 down the other. (Oaxaca Aerospace/Facebook)

According to the company, the Pegasus PE-210A volition merchantability for US $3 million, representing 30% of the outgo of akin craft connected the planetary market.

“It volition beryllium capable to execute missions precise akin to those of a Texan model, but with overmuch much affordable acquisition and operating costs,” Fernández said.

According to executives astatine Oaxaca Aerospace, the plan signifier unsocial required an concern of astir US $30 million. 

The Pegasus PE-210A, intended for tactical, surveillance and recreational use, is simply a two-seat craft featuring a tandem cockpit configuration wherever passengers are seated 1 down the other. It has an operational scope of 1,600 kilometers, and tin attain speeds of astir 388 km/h. Its maximum formation duration volition beryllium 5 hours. 

The task required 14 years of probe and improvement carried retired by a squad of 25 individuals. Various nationalist and planetary institutions collaborated successful the plane’s development, including the National Polytechnic Institute, the Aeronautical University of Querétaro, the Polytechnic University of Madrid, and the National Institute for Aviation Research successful the United States, which provided specialized method support.

At Famex, the Mexican institution besides revealed details of different task nether development: the Pegasus P-400T, a prototype geared toward precocious tactical missions and airy onslaught operations. This exemplary volition diagnostic an motor of up to 600 horsepower, reinforced retractable landing gear, and the Garmin G1000 avionics system.

The institution explained that the P-400T volition beryllium capable to transportation airy weapons according to lawsuit requirements and volition beryllium compatible with emerging propulsion technologies, specified arsenic the usage of hydrogen arsenic an alternate fuel.

Manuel Pérez Cárdenas, enforcement advisor to the Business Coordinating Council (CCE), said successful a property league that Oaxaca Aerospace has the imaginable to seizure up to 1% of the planetary airy craft market, which would correspond an yearly request for astir 50 units.

Founded successful 2011, Oaxaca Aerospace had 1 extremity successful mind: designing and manufacturing craft wholly successful Mexico. The family-owned company, headquartered successful the confederate authorities of Oaxaca, was driven by the imaginativeness and resources of the Fernández Group, which opted for nationalist innovation without resorting to ample investors oregon overseas capital.

“We’ve already fulfilled the dream; the level is already flying,” Fernández said.  “Now comes the 2nd challenge: wide production.”

With reports from Wired and Proceso