About

Flexible, affordable,
on-demand defence capability

AERALIS® continues to blaze a trail in defence aviation – transforming the sector using open-architecture, digital aircraft design as part of building a pioneering, modular light jet system able to commoditise the economics of air force fleets.

The drivers for our vision are pressing, and the benefits of our solution numerous and wide-reaching for everyone involved: for trainee aircrews, for air forces and those charged with our defence, for the defence supply chain and for taxpayers.

Our story

From Our Origins To Present-Day

AERALIS displays a full scale engineering replica of the Common Core Fuselage (CCF) at the international Defence exhibition, DIMDEX, in Doha, Qatar.

AERALIS proves its ability to rapidly evolve our aircraft design through our digital toolset, enabling enhanced range and transonic capability whilst keeping a fully modular design to deliver aircraft variants for Training, Aggressor, ISTAR and Tanking. AERALIS also secures its first service provision partnerships to deliver transformational ‘on-demand’ aircraft capability for air forces in the future, whilst securing industry-first contracts to work with Japan’s aerospace industry.

AERALIS establishes its Enterprise Hub in Bristol, providing a central space from which AERALIS’s partners developing its digital enterprise, open-system avionics and whole aircraft design could work both physically and remotely. AERALIS passes its first Full Concept Review, led by an independent Design Review Board, as well as attracting AERTEAM partners including Atkins, Thales UK, Siemens and Hamble Aerostructures (Aernnova), as well as securing a £9M contract with UK MOD to deliver digital learning for wider use by UK Combat Air.

AERALIS secures its first sovereign wealth investor to capitalise the first stage of its aircraft development programme, as a result of also winning its first government contract with the Royal Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office to develop Open-Architecture avionics for wider use in UK Combat Air.

AERALIS grows its core offering through attracting seed investment to develop a flexible aircraft system digitally in response to the market’s need for more connected, affordable and flexible light jet defence aviation to replace aging fleets of light jet trainers.

THE PEOPLE MAKING IT HAPPEN

All
Executive Team
The Board

Tristan Crawford

CEO AND FOUNDER

Dr Neil Barnett

FRAeS
CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER

Anton Burford

Capability Director

David Townsend

ChPP CEng FIET FAPM
Head of Sales Programme

Tristan Dale

Head of Integrated Campaign

Alison Partington

GOVERNANCE DIRECTOR (COMMERCIAL)

Terry Nitschke

Governance Director (Information)

BhavinI Tanna

Financial Controller

Rebecca Haynes

Head of Marketing and PR

Colin Thornton

Programme Director

Kane Marshall

Assembly Director

Mark Williams

Aircraft Availability Director

Paddy Haynes

Procurement Director

SIMON PARKER

BEng(Hons)
HEAD OF SOURCING

Robin Southwell

Chairman

Air Vice Marshal Mark Green (retd) CBE

Senior Military Advisor

Anzan Al-Naimi

Director

Mohammed Almulla

Director

Nic Birtles

Director for Digital