New Horizon Aircraft Ltd. Class A Ordinary Share IAccess Alpha Virtual Best Ideas Fall Investment Conference 2026
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Good day, and welcome to the iAccess Alpha Virtual Best Ideas Fall Investment Conference 2026. Our next presenting company is New Horizon Aircraft Ltd. If you would like to ask a question during the webcast, you may do so at any point during the presentation by clicking the Ask Question button on the left side of your screen. Type your question into the box and click Send. I'd now like to turn the floor over to today's host, Brandon Robinson, Co-Founder and CEO at New Horizon Aircraft Ltd. Please go ahead.
Okay. Thanks, folks. Really appreciate your time today. It's a pretty exciting time here at New Horizon Aircraft, and if you take nothing more away from this presentation, it's that we are building this aircraft that you see in front of us right now. Full-scale prototype parts are rolling into the hangar. We're assembling things, and we're building a hybrid electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft. So what does that mean? The aircraft that you see on that first slide can take off and land vertically just like a normal helicopter can, so it does not need a runway. It has some really cool technology on board, and that we'll talk about in a bit, that allows it to fly 98% of the mission just like a normal commercial aircraft.
Faster, cheaper, safer than a traditional helicopter, but with all of the advantages of being able to, again, land vertically and take off vertically just like a normal helicopter. So essentially a faster, cheaper, safer helicopter. And we're pretty excited about being able to roll out a full-scale prototype very shortly. There's a couple of slides I got to go through from the lawyers, from a cautionary note perspective and forward-looking statement perspective, and then we'll get into it. Where did New Horizon Aircraft come from? Near the end of my military career, I was an active fighter pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force. Really interested in engineering, and my education is from an engineering background. But my father was working in the general aviation space, in an advanced aerospace company that was doing a lot of modifications for the general aviation community.
A lot of electrification, putting electric actuators where hydraulic actuators were previously there. Hybridization of main power plants and doing a lot of really innovative work in the general aviation space. A group of investors were quite interested, and we were actually quite interested as well, in this modern air taxi movement. Advanced air mobility is what it's called. You see Joby, J-O-B-Y, Archer, A-R-C-H-E-R, BETA, B-E-T-A. They were all coming up with a really interesting concept whereby you could create an all-electric aircraft that could take off and land vertically just like a helicopter, and transform the way we move critical goods and people around the planet.
When we had a really hard look at it, we saw that there was an interesting gap in the space whereby those aircraft, again, the modern version of a flying car or air taxi sort of aircraft, would be limited to very short ranges. So 50-100 kilometers, they'd do a bunch of really great work within cities. But there was an opportunity to create a tougher, safer, faster version of that aircraft using hybrid electric technology. We put together a concept that the investors were really happy with, and came up with a concept that we'll show you in a minute, that is simply very, very complementary to the current advanced air mobility movement, and that's how New Horizon Aircraft was born. Like a lot of the companies, we're from a very operational background. So myself and my father, I've been flying airplanes since I was three years old.
I've been flying in airplanes since I was six months old. Dad has been building and flying airplanes, since he was a teenager. My grandfather was a World War II bomber pilot. Again, I was a Royal Canadian Air Force fighter pilot for quite a few years. That gives us a real operational DNA that you'll see kind of weaves its way through the company. Okay. That is the airplane that we're building right now in our hangar, currently putting together a full-scale prototype. It's a seven-person hybrid electric VTOL. So again, it can take off and land vertically just like a normal helicopter, but it can travel about almost twice as fast as a helicopter. At 250 miles an hour, that is very significant. It can go the same distance as a traditional helicopter, so 500 miles range, that's about five times further than modern EVTOL aircraft.
Critically, it's built for all weather, and we'll talk about that. So it'll be able to fly in clouds, in cold weather, in icing conditions. Being a hybrid electric aircraft, so it has a gas-burning engine on board with a generator. We do not need any charging infrastructure whatsoever. All the modern VTOL aircraft that are all electric require significant high-voltage charging stations. So they have to fly from high-voltage charging station to the next one to be able to charge the aircraft.
Critically, our aircraft can- Please remain on the line while we reconnect the speaker line.
Please stand by. Pardon the brief pause here. Please stand by. We will reconnect speakers and resume today's session shortly. As we stand by and wait for our speakers to be reconnected, just want to remind you that the iAccess Alpha hosts four virtual Best Ideas investor conferences annually, one per quarter. Our next event will be the iAccess Alpha Virtual Best Ideas Winter Investment Conference, scheduled for December 8th through 9th, 2026. For more information, presentation replays, and updates on future conferences, please visit www.iaccessalpha.com. Thank you once again. Please stand by while we reconnect today's speakers. Brendan, your line is live.
Okay, I am going back to slide 6. Okay, folks. I am back. It looks like we are back in the 1980s with this platform where I have to dial in with a phone and I am on some sort of separate back-end system. Anyway, thanks for staying with us. Appreciate it. It will be great when these platforms actually fast-forward about 20 years to where we actually have some useful technology involved. Anyway, apparently we lost you on slide 6. I will go back to slide 5 just to keep people up to date on our technology. We have five vertical lift fans that are electrically powered in the main wings and then two in the small wings in the canards. Again, those fans are electrically powered. That allows us to take off vertically.
They produce enough thrust, and then at a safe speed, that propeller at the back pushes the aircraft forward, and then we transition to forward flight at a safe speed. The wings and the small wings at the front, the canards, they will close up, and that is our proprietary technology, and that returns the aircraft to a very low-drag, high-efficiency configuration. Again, that allows us to travel at about 1.8 times the speed of a traditional helicopter in a much more efficient fashion. We will get to that later since we are running out of time a little bit now. That is the key to our success with superior speed. Again, about twice as fast as a helicopter. We can go about the same distance and carrying a significant amount of payload, 1,500 pounds of useful load, and much, much safer than a traditional helicopter.
If anything happens to the main engine in a helicopter, you can auto-rotate, which means you can sort of descend very rapidly in about a 45-degree cone, pick a flat landing spot, and flare and land, and you are safe in a helicopter. In this aircraft, if anything happens to the main propulsion unit, and again, we have a Pratt & Whitney PT6 on board, which is the most robust engine, from a turbine perspective, on the face of the Earth. You can glide, and then any flat area that you can see, the airplane can open its wings, and it will land vertically in any, again, 40 by 40 sort of flat area, which I think is pretty significant. Again, much more options from a fail-safe perspective, much safer than a traditional helicopter while being faster and cheaper. On the military side, there is significant military potential.
Obviously, if you build a helicopter that can go twice as fast, is quieter, safer, and cheaper to operate, militaries around the world are going to be very, very interested in this technology. We heard from one major defense prime contractor that they had come up with a similar concept. We just beat them to the patents and the prototype, so that is pretty awesome. You can see it there with its wings folded in the back of a C-17. We are being able to rapidly deploy missions like special forces infiltration, exfiltration, moving critical logistics supplies around for forward operating bases, extracting pilots from behind enemy lines, like just happened in Iran. This aircraft would have been excellent. At the peak of my career, I was planning and leading NATO coalition strike missions where we would go in and practice doing this stuff.
This aircraft would have been an amazing capability. We are pretty proud to be able to help servicemen and women around the world with this new tech. Of course, if you have a helicopter capability that can move things twice as fast, emergency medical services is an outstanding mission that we are really proud to be able to offer. Can you imagine getting someone to the hospital in half the time or from twice the distance in that golden hour, where time-sensitive critical care is going to save lives? I am pretty proud that this aircraft will save lives around the world. Of course, it is very, very interesting from an economic perspective. For example, in Canada, in the province of Alberta, last year, and across Canada, if you wanted emergency medical services via helicopter, you had about a 1 in 6 chance of getting it.
The helicopters are expensive. There are not enough of them to do the emergency medical services job, to do the medevac job that they require. This can do the same job at 75% less cost per unit mile. Not only is it twice as fast, again, getting patients and maybe organs to a hospital in half the time, but you are paying 75% less. So operators are able to operate this aircraft at 75% less than a helicopter per unit mile.
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