Story and image from Heart Aerospace
Los Angeles, California & Dallas, Texas, September 23, 2026 – Heart Aerospace today unveiled the ES-36, a 36-seat hybrid-electric regional airliner and the company’s production aircraft. Alongside the unveiling, award-winning air carrier JSX announced a deposit-backed purchase agreement for 50 ES-36 aircraft, with purchase rights for 50 more. The agreement deepens the companies’ existing partnership and advances JSX’s plans for a next-generation regional fleet designed to expand time-saving nonstop connectivity from convenient community airports.
The ES-36 evolves the previously announced Heart ES-30 with a simplified two-nacelle airframe and series-hybrid electric propulsion architecture designed to further improve the Heart production aircraft’s operating cost advantage over legacy regional aircraft.
Compared with the ES-30, the ES-36 adds six passenger seats and 1,415 pounds of payload capacity, increasing both by 20 percent while retaining the same maximum takeoff weight and battery capacity as the prior design. Its aerodynamically optimized airframe allows more capacity to be dedicated to passengers and payload, increasing the aircraft’s revenue potential, while the shift from four nacelles and propellers to two reduces the number of propulsion components to maintain, lowering maintenance costs.
Superseding the ES-30’s four-engine independent-hybrid configuration, the ES-36 adopts…
Click the link to read the full story! -> Heart Aerospace unveils ES-36