In 2017, it developed a motor that became their prototype and led to pivoting the company to focus on Electric Aviation and move its headquarters to Redmond, Washington.

[citation needed] In June 2018, magniX publicly stated plans to fly an electric Cessna 208 Caravan with a 540 kW (720 hp) motor for up to an hour, by August 2019.

The iron bird is a Caravan forward fuselage used as a test bed, with the usual PT6 turboprop engine replaced by an electric motor, inverter and a liquid-cooling system, including radiators, driving a Cessna 206 propeller.

[8] The magniX magni500 electric motor used in the Harbour Air electric de Havilland Canada Beaver weighs 135 kg (297 lb) and develops 560 kW (750 shp)[9] In contrast, the Pratt & Whitney R-985 Wasp Junior SB it is replacing has a dry weight of 290 kg (640 lb), not including oil, and produces 400 bhp (300 kW), more than halving the weight, while nearly doubling the power – a saving in this case that can be transferred toward carrying the difference in additional batteries.

[11] In December 2020, CEO Roei Ganzarski told an interviewer[12] that the company was consolidating its operations at Everett, Washington, and had shut their Australian site on the Gold Coast earlier in the year.