Cligent Aerospace is building India’s first hybrid-electric STOL (Short Takeoff and Landing) aircraft platform for clean, Advance Air Mobility(RAM & UAM) and cargo delivery. Our 9-seater/1-ton aircraft operates from 150-meter runways — no airport required. With zero emissions, 1000 km range, and up to 70% lower operating costs, we’re rethinking how regional aviation works — designed, engineered, and built in India.
Backed by IIT Mandi, IIT Gandhinagar, IIMA Ventures & PIERC.
Startup Description
Cligent Aerospace is building India’s first hybrid-electric STOL (Short Takeoff and Landing) aircraft platform for clean, Advance Air Mobility(RAM & UAM) and cargo delivery. Our 9-seater/1-ton aircraft operates from 150-meter runways — no airport required. With zero emissions, 1000 km range, and up to 70% lower operating costs, we’re rethinking how regional aviation works — designed, engineered, and built in India.
Backed by IIT Mandi, IIT Gandhinagar, IIMA Ventures & PIERC.
India, Africa (excluding North Africa), Australia & New Zealand (Oceania), East Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East & North Africa, North America, South Asia, Southeast Asia
Business
Modal Type
Aircraft Development Company
Type of
Sales
B2B, B2C, B2G, B2B2C
Competitors
LAT Aerospace, Sarla Aviation, Electra Aero, Veridion, Pipistral, Pilatus, Cessena
Teams
Harsh Joshi
Founder
Tell us a bit about how founding team knows
each other.
We are collegemates and roommates in Vadodara and Ahmedabad. We know each other for more than 10 years professionally and personally. We shared this vision of start a venture which is hard to build but scalable and worth spending time for next 20 years and got together to solve a huge market of Aerospace and defense in India. The vision is to build the best aircraft from India for the world.
Why did you decide to start this
company?
We believe this is the right time and place to apply our skills & experience and help shape India’s next aerospace leap — with Cligent pioneering a new class of cargo aircraft.
Are all the founders full-time on this
project?
Yes
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