Mission
The world gets closer when we connect.
Distance quietly decides who you see, what you can build, and how far a life can reach. Revia builds the aircraft that close it.
Overview
For most of a century, flight was how we beat distance, until we stopped. Roughly 150 U.S. communities lost their last scheduled flight, and the same gap opened across the world, because no one would build the right-sized aircraft to close it. So we are.
Travel is the part you feel: the day's drive that becomes an hour, the place you can finally get back to. Closing the distance is the part that changes everything else.
01 · The problem
The connections we stopped noticing
For most of the twentieth century, flying out of a small American city was unremarkable. Then, after deregulation, it quietly stopped being possible. Since 1995, roughly 150 U.S. communities lost their last scheduled commercial flight. Not in a single dramatic collapse, but seat by seat, route by route, until the airport was just a building by an empty runway.
In 1990, you could fly out of Cheyenne. By 2019, the last carrier was gone: ninety years of air service, taken for granted, then removed. The same story repeated in Paducah, Wausau, Dubuque, and dozens of places that never made the news.
The map didn't shrink all at once. It dimmed, one beacon at a time.
02 · The global problem
A gap the whole world shares
This is not only an American story. Across Africa, Southeast Asia and India, Latin America, and the Pacific Islands, the same 50–100 seat segment is missing: the aircraft size that connects secondary cities to the network economically.
We estimate a total addressable market of 8,000–10,000 aircraft estimate in that gap, with no clean-sheet product to meet it.
03 · The structural cause
The aircraft disappeared first
The routes didn't vanish by accident. Three forces compounded: fuel prices quadrupled and broke the economics of small jets; pilot scope clauses froze the regional segment at 76 seats; and no manufacturer ever built a clean-sheet replacement for the 50–100 seat aircraft.
The attempts failed or retreated. Mitsubishi's SpaceJet died after roughly $10B. Bombardier exited commercial aircraft. Embraer moved upmarket. The gap was left wide open.
04 · Revia's answer
Start where the need is sharpest
Revia begins with a Phase 1 regional family, the R-50, R-75, and R-100, a 5-abreast trio sharing one wing, one cross-section, and one engine family. Sequenced defense-and-cargo-first, where the certification path is cleaner and the demand is immediate.
05 · The architecture
Built to grow
The regional family is not a one-generation product. The shared wing, cross-section, and engine family are chosen for a reason: the same architecture that serves the 50-seat thin route today is the foundation for expanding into larger markets as Revia scales. The platform grows with the demand, without starting over.
06 · Why now
The demand is already on the record
The 50-seat fleet is retiring with no replacement. Airlines need a right-sized option for thin routes. The market gap is open, the certification path is clear, and the incumbents have walked away. The window is open now.