Reviving the regional market
The world gets closer when we connect. We're building an aircraft to bring people together.
Distance decides who you see, what you can build, and how far a life can reach. Flight was how we beat it, until the right-sized aircraft stopped being built and the routes went dark. Revia builds the aircraft that close the distance, so a day's drive becomes an hour.
One community, told specifically
“Reeve Aleutian Airways served Adak from the late 1940s through 2000 with DC-3s, Electras, and 727s; after Reeve's collapse the US government subsidizes Alaska Airlines at >$2M/year (~$10K per one-way flight) to maintain the sole lifeline for ~300 residents.”
Adak, AK · last service ~
Why it happened
The routes didn't vanish by accident. The aircraft did, so the distance reopened.
Fuel quadrupled.
The economics of small jets came apart as fuel prices climbed.
Scope clauses froze the segment at 76 seats.
Labor agreements capped regional aircraft size, stranding the gap below mainline.
No clean-sheet replacement was ever built.
The 50–100 seat aircraft simply stopped being made. The routes followed. And the distance came back.
The answer
A regional family built on shared architecture, designed to reconnect the places everyone else left open.
The regional family
R-50 · R-75 · R-100
A 5-abreast family sharing one wing, one cross-section, and one engine family, built to make thin routes economic again first and architected to scale as market needs grow.
Why now
The demand is already on the record.
“We need more competition in the aerospace business.”
“We'd consider a third manufacturer if they came in 10–20% below Airbus.”
- ~74
- regional airports the big three exited since 2020
- 19%
- below 2018: average daily departures per route at non-hub airports (2024)
- $590M
- Essential Air Service subsidy for 177 communities (Oct 2024), up from $277M in FY2018
- ~60%
- below 2019: scheduled 50-seat regional-jet flying — the right-sized aircraft is disappearing
- 8,000–10,000
- aircraft total addressable market in the 50–100 seat gap
The way, revived.
We're building the aircraft that close the distance: the day's drive that becomes an hour. If that's a future you want to help build, let's talk.