WheelTug 737 Demonstration • Memphis Airport

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WheelTug is an in-wheel electric taxi system under development by a company of the same name, Wheeltug is a subsidiary of and majority owned by Borealis Exploration. The system will enable airplanes to taxi forward and backward without needing a tow tractor or using main jet engines. WheelTug will accomplish this goal through twin electric motors installed in the nose wheels; these motors will be powered by the aircraft's Auxiliary Power Unit (APU). According to Aviation Week, the WheelTug system was projected to provide savings in ground turnaround time and increased aircraft utilization.

In June 2005 Chorus Motors first ground tested the WheelTug concept on an old Air Canada Boeing 767 at the Evergreen Air Center at Pinal Airpark Aircraft boneyard in Marana, Arizona with an electric motor attached to the nose wheel for taxi testing. Delta Air Lines issued a press release in 2007 that Delta would become a development partner and launch customer for Wheeltug expecting installation of first production units on Delta's Boeing 737s by late 2009. According to a Wheeltug press release, roller tests were conducted at Prague Airport in November 2010 in snowy and icy conditions, and the first fully 'in-wheel' demonstration unit was tested there June 2012. In December 2016, the FAA accepted the company's Supplemental Type Certification (STC) plan for the Boeing 737 Next Generation models. As of January 2017 Wheeltug claims that more than 20 commercial airlines accepted optional production slots over the years. The CEO states that he hoped WheelTug would enter service for the 737NG when the certification process was expected to be complete in late 2018, with Canadian carrier Air Transat as the launch customer. In September of 2020 Wheeltug CEO Isiah Cox said that the system would be in production and certified in late 2021 and also claimed that Wheeltug had become so popular that it is expected to be added to a future release of Microsoft Flight Simulator, Cox said the main obstacles to adoption are the difficulty of renegotiating contracts with labor unions and aircraft manufacturers Airbus and former Wheeltug development partner Boeing who "actively discourage airlines from trying WheelTug" as he claims leasing a Wheeltug unit can make older aircraft useful again without needing to purchase newly manufactured aircraft.

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