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Airhart Aeronautics

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Long Beach, CA, USAFounded 20226+ employeesSeed raisedSeedPrivate
Last round: series unknown · $4.6M · Oct 2025(3 rounds total)
Founded by Brendan Quinn, Nikita ErmoshkinAirplanes anyone can fly
Backed by(5 investors)
Unpopular VenturesSoma CapitalY CombinatorLiquid 2 VenturesPioneer Fund

Airhart Aeronautics creates semi-autonomous airplanes that make it easier for pilots to operate their own planes. Airhart airplanes use a fault-tolerant fly-by-wire control technology that streamlines all stages of flying. Comprehensive testing are integrated into the design from the outset, guaranteeing that every flight is safe. Airhart Aeronautics was founded in 2022.

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About the Company

Airhart Aeronautics is building airplanes anyone can fly. We are developing advanced flight control hardware, software, and systems to enable a new generation of pilots to fly airplanes. Traditionally, pilots have to manage all of the mechanics of flight, while juggling communication, navigation, passengers, congested airspaces, and possible emergencies. Airhart's advanced technology extends the ideas of fly-by-wire aircraft to a new level to make flying simple, intuitive, and most importantly, safe.

Tech Stack

The core of Airhart's technology is advanced hardware, software, and electronics to manage all the physics of flying an airplane. This frees the pilot to focus entirely on what pilots are good at: making decisions throughout the flight to keep it safe and getting where they want to go.

Airhart is building the full stack (electrical design, software design, and mechanical design and integration) into an airframe manufactured by a manufacturing partner. This enables us to focus on what we are best at--control systems--and not re-invent the wheel (or airplane wing)

Founders

Nikita Ermoshkin
Nikita Ermoshkin

Nikita Ermoshkin is an electrical and systems engineer with a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Cornell University. Nikita was an avionics systems engineer at SpaceX, where he worked on Falcon 9 Fairing recovery, Falcon 9 Payload design, Falcon 9 Stage 2 avionics, and several other projects. Prior to SpaceX and Cornell, Nikita was a co-founder and systems architect at Carbon, where he worked on the development of Carbon's 3D printing technology and printer architecture.

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