We’re proud to share that MD Flugzeugbau has received funding through the “𝐋𝐨𝐰-𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐈𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬” program by 𝐍𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐤 to support our latest initiative.

Project Title:
LS8-Jet – Implementation of Innovative Manufacturing Processes and Materials

Project Start Date: April 1, 2025

Focus of R&D activities:
- Demonstrating the suitability of vacuum infusion for serial production of aircraft components, where consistency and strength are of critical importance.
- Additive manufacturing (3D printing) to optimize designs and production processes in the field of light aircraft construction.

Our MD team has done a great job - in mid-April we completed the prototype of our Agrilight project and we are proud of the result!

With a total weight of 795kg, we have achieved our goal of a weight saving of at least 400kg compared to the steel construction version - which was 1233kg.

The last few weeks in particular have often been a sweaty affair, but the efforts of the last few years and months have paid off, because the result is impressive. This would not have been possible without such a strong team, so a big thank you to everyone involved at MD Composites Technology and MD Flugzeugbau!
In addition, many thanks to the IFW of Leibniz Universität Hannover, the PuK of Clausthal University of Technology and KRONE Agriculture as project partners as well as Schill+Seilacher "Struktol" GmbH as resin supplier and consulting partner.
Above all, however, the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection for making the TTP LB possible.

Afterwards, we travelled to the Hanover Trade Fair, where this showcase project was given a stage in the Lightweight Construction Pavilion.

We were able to impress many visitors on site and hold numerous discussions in which we were able to explain our motivations and the implementation of lightweight construction in the steel-dominated agricultural machinery industry. We also learned that we should have used green paint more sparingly - because many visitors only realised that the frame is really a self-supporting fibre composite structure in which steel parts were used almost exclusively as connecting elements to surrounding components after haptic inspection.

We are looking forward to the final project phase and thus to the validation of our development: installation in a maize chopper and subsequent testing on a hydropulser test stand at the beginning of 2025.

It is always a great pleasure! With Norman and Tjark, 2 more light aircraft builders are continuing the long line of light aircraft builders who have been successfully trained in our company over the last 30 years. As part of a small celebration, the management, together with Boris as one of the two people responsible for training the light aircraft technicians, took the opportunity to congratulate them on their excellent results in their final examinations.
We are particularly pleased that Norman and Tjark have decided to remain loyal to us as specialists and to continue the exciting journey together in the further development of the MD Group with its companies MD Flugzeugbau, MD Composites and our youngest baby MD Aircraft.

The result makes us all proud, because in addition to the motivation and willingness of the trainees themselves, it takes the right environment to allow them to experience the challenges of this great profession, to convey all the learning content and, above all, to ensure that the necessary problem-solving skills are learnt.

Together we have succeeded in all of this. Once again, our congratulations and best wishes to Tjark and Norman, and many thanks to the team of instructors and everyone else who, alongside Boris and Alexander, contributed to achieving such a great result.

We are happy to announce that the EASA has granted the type-certificate for the JSA MD 3 RES.
More information can be found on the EASA type-certificate data sheet TCDS_EASA_A_616_JS-MD_Single_Issue_06_1.pdf