Otto Aviation is looking for investors to advance its unconventional “Celera” business aircraft from a prototype to a production airplane built in the thousands. The media attention the company has ...

Is it an egg, a blimp or a bullet? Whatever you might want to call the shape of the Otto Celera 500L, it’s one that catches the eye. It looks like no other plane out there, and for a good reason: ...

Typically, small aircraft like this would really only be relevant to the very top end of town, but Chairman and Chief Scientist William Otto Jr says, "in many cases, individuals and families will be ...

The latest series of flights focused on confirming the extent of laminar flow over the Celera’s wing and fuselage. Credit: Otto Aircraft Otto Aviation has completed the first phase of testing of its ...

The whispers started three years ago. A mysterious bullet-shaped plane was spotted at the Southern California Logistics Airport near Victorville in April 2017. Its unusual design prompted immediate ...

Otto Aviation this week unveiled the Celera 500L, a six-passenger pusher-prop business airplane powered by a single 500-hp Red A03 diesel engine. Yorba Linda, California-based Otto Aviation has ...

Greener flight: Otto Aviation says the Celera 500L reduces carbon emissions by over 80% relative to comparable business aircraft and over 40% relative to the most efficient commercial aircraft, on a ...

The subject of mystery and speculation since the first unofficial pictures appeared, an unusual business aircraft has finally emerged into public view with the formal introduction of the Otto Aviation ...

These are strange, unprecedented times we’re living in and, while many businesses have had to adapt to face the challenges of the current health crisis, the aviation industry has little means of doing ...

Under the agreement, Otto and ZeroAvia will work to integrate ZeroAvia’s ZA600 zero-emission engines to Otto’s revolutionary Celera aircraft. The collaboration has the potential to make the Celera the ...

Sure, a sleek business jet might be more alluring, but the numbers for the zeppelin-like Celera 500L from Otto Aviation are more compelling. The six-seat business aircraft promises 18 to 25 mpg fuel ...

Hydrogen-electric propulsion specialist ZeroAvia is to develop a powertrain for Otto Aviation, which has been test-flying a prototype of its low-emissions Celera 500L aircraft. ZeroAvia says it will ...