Regent Craft.
We build all-electric seagliders for fast, safe, and low-cost coastal transportation.
"Regent Viceroy"
First sea trails 6 March 2025

Viceroy is REGENT’s flagship seaglider, a 12 passenger vehicle that operates exclusively over water, traversing the sea in one of three modes: hull, hydrofoil, or flight in ground effect. Seagliders have 160 nautical mile range with existing battery technology (upgradeable to over 400 nautical mile range with next generation battery technology) and will enter service by mid-decade. REGENT will put humans on board full-scale prototypes in 2024. Specifications and configuration are subject to change, images may not reflect the final vehicle design.

Our mission is to drastically reduce the cost and headache of regional transportation between coastal cities. Our vehicle, called a seaglider, is a wing-in-ground-effect craft that operates a few meters off the water's surface and couples the high speed of an airplane with the low operating cost of a boat. Built to the same safety standards of all modern aircraft and watercraft, our vehicle will service routes up to 180 miles with existing battery technology, and routes up to 500 miles with next-gen batteries, all via existing dock infrastructure. Our team of MIT-trained, ex-Boeing engineers are leveraging maritime vehicle development pathways to bring our zero-emission, high-speed seagliders to market by mid-decade.

Founders

Billy Thalheimer

Co-Founder and CEO

Billy is the co-founder and CEO of REGENT. Since co-founding REGENT in late 2020, Billy has overseen growth of the company to over 100 employees, accumulated a commercial backlog of seaglider orders worth more than $9 billion, and raised over $90M from world-class investors like Founders Fund, Mark Cuban, Peter Thiel, Japan Airlines, and Lockheed Martin. Billy honed his skills in human-crewed electric aircraft development at Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences, where he was responsible for aircraft design, program management, and business generation for Boeing's portfolio of future air mobility solutions. Billy holds a B.S. and M.S. in Aerospace Engineering from MIT and is a licensed aerobatic pilot.