Innovative Aerospace Summit: EVIO Advancing Hybrid Regional Aviation

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Innovative Aerospace Summit: EVIO Advancing Hybrid Regional Aviation

USA | Aerospace & Defense Electronics EquityJuneResearch11, 2026

Innovative Aerospace Summit: EVIO Advancing

Hybrid Regional Aviation

We hosted Co-Founder, Chairman, and CEO Michael Derman and Senior

Director, Finance, Stefan Suppa at EVIO at our 4th Annual Jefferies Innovative

Aerospace Summit. Key takes: 1) EVIO targeting regional routes w/ 88-

seat hybrid-electric aircraft; 2) clean-sheet, strong hybrid architecture core to

reducing total ownership cost; 3) Boeing/P&W collab and battery partnerships

help derisk execution; 4) defense and battery tech adjacencies could support

near-term rev.

Company Overview: EVIO is developing a family of hybrid-electric regional aircraft, led by the 88-

seat EVIO 810, designed to restore profitability on short-haul regional routes while reducing noise

and emissions. The platform is optimized for all-electric operations on shorter missions and hybrid

operations on longer routes, with passenger, cargo, and defense applications. The founding team

previously worked together on the AirLand program that became Textron’s Scorpion and the Sierra

Nevada Freedom advanced jet trainer/light attack aircraft.

Regional Economics Drive The Thesis: EVIO is addressing a regional aviation market where

roughly 3,000 sub-500 nautical mile routes have been dropped globally since 2000, despite those

routes representing ~43%-46% of global departures. The view is that legacy aircraft designed

in the 1980s/1990s no longer meet current airline profitability requirements, given crew costs,

maintenance, emission risk, and broader operating pressures. EVIO’s strategy starts with operator

economics rather than emissions alone.