Expliseat

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Expliseat SAS
Type Private
IndustryAirline Seat
FounderBenjamin Saada, Jean-Charles Samuelian, Vincent Tejedor
Headquarters Paris, France
Key people
CEO: Benjamin Saada
Website https://expliseat.com/

Expliseat is an aircraft seat manufacturer based in Paris, known for its very light aircraft seats, the TiSeat or Titanium Seat.

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Development

Benjamin Saada, Jean-Charles Samuelian, and Vincent Tejedor created Expliseat in 2011. [1] The company was registered as an approved design organization by EASA in 2013. [2] [3]

In March 2014, Expliseat has certified the first aircraft seat made of composite and titanium [4]   at just 4 kg that offers a 50-percent saving compared with the lightest models made by other manufacturers like Recaro, Safran or Rockwell Collins which weigh between 10 and 11 kilograms. [5] The same year, Expliseat has secured its first customer [6]  with Air Méditerranée  on their Airbus A320s , a French airline based in Toulouse.

In 2015, Expliseat enlarged its product range to regional aircraft. In 2016, ATR and Expliseat signed a buyer-furnished equipment (BFE) agreement for the supply of Expliseat's Titanium Seat [7]  with Air Tahiti [8] [9] [10]  acted as the launch customer. The lighter seat helps ATR operators to decrease fuel burn while allowing the carriage of more guests and cargo on board, it has been selected by multiple operators including major airlines like Cebu Pacific in the Philippines. [11]

In 2017, during Paris Air Show , Dassault Aviation selected Expliseat to equip the seats of its Falcon Multi-role Aircraft. The reduced weight of the seats will allow its Falcon aircraft to improve the range by 370 km or 25 minutes. [12]

In 2018, Expliseat has developed a new seat model, the TiSeat E2. [13] While TiSeat E1 has attracted regional operators, Expliseat says that TiSeat E2 can satisfy the needs of medium-haul routes for legacy airlines, as well as the needs of low cost or regional carriers on short-haul segments. Seat was selected by SpiceJet on 10 Boeing 737 Next Gen and 25 new Bombardier Q400 aircraft in April 2018 [14]

In 2019, after Longview Aviation Capital Corp. agrees to Acquire Dash 8  Program from Bombardier Inc, [15] De Havilland Canada announces Expliseat’s Ultra-light Seats as an optional feature for the Dash 8-400 Aircraft. [16] The same year, Expliseat has also begun the Airbus Supplier Qualification process for the TiSeat E2 targeting to become a linefit supplier on the single aisle market within the next two years. [17]

In 2020, Canada’s Nolinor Aviation  has selected Expliseat’s TiSeat E2 on its Boeing 737-400 fleet. [18] [19] Seats will be installed on Nolinor new Airline OWG. 40 per cent lighter than other certified seats, Prud’homme, the CEO of Nolinor, said the new seats will allow OWG aircraft to carry more payload than a 737-800 [20]

Customers

Expliseat have sold 50 cabins in 2017, [21] list of Customers includes:

List of customers by area
AreaCustomers
Europe / AfricaAir Méditerranée, Fly CAA , ATR, Airbus, Dassault Aviation
Americas United Express, Air North, Calm Air, La Costena, Nolinor Aviation, De Havilland
Asia / PacificSpiceJet, Cebu Pacific, Flyme, Air Calédonie, Air Tahiti

Specification

Key technical data
VariantTiSeat E1TiSeat E2
Seat type:Slim seatReclinable seat
Seat weight:From 4 kgFrom 5 kg
Certification16g dynamic + HIC16g dynamic + HIC
Aircraft models:ATR, Falcon JetsBoeing 737, Airbus A320, E-Jets, CRJ, Dash 8

Awards

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This is a list of aviation-related events in 2018.

This is a list of aviation-related events in 2019.

References

  1. ↑ "3 French Guys Created A Titanium Seat That Could Save Airlines Millions Of Dollars". Business Insider. December 15, 2014.
  2. ↑ "EASA Expliseat certifié en tant que Concepteur Aéronautique de sieges". Le Journal de l'Aviation.
  3. ↑ "The Titanium Seat receives European Aviation Safety Agency Certification". Aerocontact. April 4, 2014.
  4. ↑ "The Expliseat's Titanium Seat receives FAA certification". JEC Composite. September 12, 2014.
  5. ↑ "3 French Guys Made A Titanium Airplane Seat That Could Save Airlines Millions Of Dollars". Business Insider. April 10, 2014.
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  7. ↑ "ATR expands its seat offer with Expliseat". ATR. April 5, 2016.
  8. ↑ Harte, Hélène (June 16, 2015). "Nouveaux sièges pour Air Tahiti : les plus légers au monde !". France Info.
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  11. ↑ "Cebu Pacific planes use world's lightest aircraft seat". Retail News Asia. Feb 3, 2017.
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  14. ↑ Alasdair, Morton (April 3, 2018). "Spicejet to fit 'world's lightest aircraft seat' on B737 and Q400 fleets". Aircraft Interior International.
  15. ↑ "Longview Aviation Capital Corp. Agrees to Acquire Dash 8 Program from Bombardier Inc". Viking Air Ltd.
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  18. ↑ Preston, Alexander (June 17, 2020). "Nolinor Aviation selects Expliseat's TiSeat E2". InFlight.
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