Electra is an American aerospace manufacturer developing hybrid-electric "Ultra Short" aircraft that combine blown lift with hybrid-electric propulsion to take off and land in roughly 150 feet, removing the runway from regional air travel. Founded in 2020 by Dr. John Langford, the founder of Aurora Flight Sciences, with MIT professors John Hansman and Mark Drela as technical advisors, Electra flew its EL2 Goldfinch technology demonstrator in November 2023 and submitted an FAA Part 23 type-certification application for the nine-passenger EL9 Ultra Short in December 2025. The company reports more than 2,200 pre-orders from over 60 operators, and works both a commercial regional air-mobility market and a defense last-tactical-leg airlift market backed by U.S. Air Force SBIR Phase III and STTR contracts. It is headquartered in Manassas, Virginia, with operations in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Switzerland and a production facility under development at AirPark Ohio adjacent to Springfield-Beckley Municipal Airport. Strategic investors include Lockheed Martin Ventures, Honeywell and Safran. Electra publishes no developer program, API reference or machine-readable specification; the one public, anonymous JSON API it serves is the Statamic CMS content surface behind its newsroom, discovered and documented here by probe.
Electra.aero publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network: Content API. Tagged areas include Aerospace, Aviation, Aircraft Manufacturing, Advanced Air Mobility, and Electric Aviation.
Electra.aero’s developer surface includes engineering blog, support, YouTube channel, authentication, and 14 more developer resources.
AerospaceAviationAircraft ManufacturingAdvanced Air MobilityElectric AviationHybrid-Electric PropulsionRegional Air MobilityDefenseTransportationContentCompany
Public, unauthenticated, CORS-open JSON API serving the Electra.aero newsroom — press releases, program milestones and syndicated coverage. This is the default Statamic Content ...
aid: electra.aero
name: Electra.aero
description: Electra is an American aerospace manufacturer developing hybrid-electric "Ultra Short" aircraft that combine
blown lift with hybrid-electric propulsion to take off and land in roughly 150 feet, removing the runway from regional air
travel. Founded in 2020 by Dr. John Langford, the founder of Aurora Flight Sciences, with MIT professors John Hansman and
Mark Drela as technical advisors, Electra flew its EL2 Goldfinch technology demonstrator in November 2023 and submitted
an FAA Part 23 type-certification application for the nine-passenger EL9 Ultra Short in December 2025. The company reports
more than 2,200 pre-orders from over 60 operators, and works both a commercial regional air-mobility market and a defense
last-tactical-leg airlift market backed by U.S. Air Force SBIR Phase III and STTR contracts. It is headquartered in Manassas,
Virginia, with operations in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Switzerland and a production facility under development at AirPark
Ohio adjacent to Springfield-Beckley Municipal Airport. Strategic investors include Lockheed Martin Ventures, Honeywell
and Safran. Electra publishes no developer program, API reference or machine-readable specification; the one public, anonymous
JSON API it serves is the Statamic CMS content surface behind its newsroom, discovered and documented here by probe.
image: https://electra-aero.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/electra-logo.svg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/electra.aero/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-08-12'
modified: '2026-08-12'
tags:
- Aerospace
- Aviation
- Aircraft Manufacturing
- Advanced Air Mobility
- Electric Aviation
- Hybrid-Electric Propulsion
- Regional Air Mobility
- Defense
- Transportation
- Content
- Company
apis:
- name: Electra.aero Content API
description: Public, unauthenticated, CORS-open JSON API serving the Electra.aero newsroom — press releases, program milestones
and syndicated coverage. This is the default Statamic Content REST API behind the corporate site; Electra neither documents
nor supports it. Discovered and verified by probe on 2026-08-12 (124 entries, HTTP 200 anonymous). Only the `news` collection
is exposed; every other Statamic resource returns 404.
humanURL: https://electra.aero/news
baseURL: https://electra.aero/api
tags:
- Content
- News
- Newsroom
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/electra.aero-content-openapi.yml
- type: Overlay
url: overlays/electra.aero-content-overlay.yaml
- type: DataModel
url: data-model/electra.aero-data-model.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
url: errors/electra.aero-problem-types.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
url: agentic-access/electra.aero-agentic-access.yml
- type: Website
url: https://electra.aero/
- type: Blog
url: https://electra.aero/news
- type: Support
url: https://electra.aero/contact
- type: LinkedIn
url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/electra-aero/
- type: Twitter
url: https://x.com/ElectraAero
- type: YouTube
url: https://www.youtube.com/@Electraaero
- type: Careers
url: https://electra.aero/careers
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/electra.aero-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
url: conventions/electra.aero-conventions.yml
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/electra.aero-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
url: lifecycle/electra.aero-lifecycle.yml
- type: Packages
url: packages/electra.aero-packages.yml
- type: RateLimits
url: rate-limits/electra.aero-rate-limits.yml
- type: Plans
url: plans/electra.aero-plans-pricing.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
url: llms/electra.aero-llms.txt
- type: AgentSkill
url: skills/_index.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/electra.aero-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
date: '2026-08-12'
status: enriched
artifacts_added: 18
pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
state: covered
detail: Electra.aero publishes no developer program, but STEP 0b contract discovery found a live, anonymous, CORS-open JSON
API on the provider's own host - the Statamic content surface at https://electra.aero/api serving 124 newsroom entries
- which is captured here as a probe-derived OpenAPI 3.1 rather than recorded as "no API surface".
evidence:
- url: https://electra.aero/api/collections/news/entries
status: 200
- url: https://electra.aero/openapi.json
status: 404
- url: https://electra.aero/.well-known/agent-card.json
status: 404
checked: '2026-08-12'
x-enrichment-notes: Pointers deliberately NOT emitted, because the underlying thing does not exist and a pointer would assert
that it does - WellKnown and SecurityTxt (all eight /.well-known/ paths 404), AgentCard (agent-card.json and agent.json
both 404), MCPServer (no server published; mcp/ holds a candidate projection only), SDKs (no package on any registry), StatusPage
(status.electra.aero NXDOMAIN), Deprecation (no policy), Security and VulnerabilityDisclosure (no security.txt, no disclosure
page), Compliance and TrustCenter (no published certifications), Idempotency (read-only surface, no idempotency contract),
ChangeLog (the newsroom is corporate news, not a dated API changelog), AsyncAPI and Webhooks (no event surface), Pricing,
SignUp, TermsOfService, PrivacyPolicy, DeveloperPortal, Documentation, APIReference, GettingStarted, Roadmap, Sandbox, CLI,
Postman and GitHubOrganization (none published - see x-coverage). The github.com/Electra-Aero organization does exist but
has zero public repositories, no public members and no verification, so it is recorded here rather than wired as a GitHubOrganization
pointer.