Boeing brings a hand lamp into production to disinfect its aircraft.

Boeing announced Tuesday that it has reached an agreement with the company Healthe for the production and distribution of a handheld ultraviolet (UV) lamp designed to disinfect the interior of the aircraft, which could be ready for the market by late fall, EFE reported.

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Boeing has spent half a year transforming an “idea” into a “functional tool” under the Safe Travel Initiative (STI) “to improve the safety and well-being” of its users during the pandemic and has now signed a contract to assign the patents and technology for the prototype to Florida-based Healthe.

“The UV lamp is designed to be more effective than other similar devices. It quickly disinfects the surfaces of an aircraft and reinforces other layers of protection for passengers and crew,” CTI head Mike Delaney said in a note, noting that the next step is to “launch it into the world.

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The aeronautics company said that Healthe will manufacture and distribute this manual UV lamp designed to help airlines and “potentially other sectors against the coronavirus”, and estimated that it could be available for the market by the end of the autumn.

Healthe’s CEO, Abe Morris, said quoted in the note that the commercial-grade device “could also be beneficial to schools, hospitals, offices, and anywhere else where pathogens may be present.

The Boeing-designed, suitcase-sized lamp uses 222-nanometer ultraviolet light, which preliminary studies have shown “destroys pathogens more effectively than the wavelengths used in other products,” according to the note.

It is particularly effective in confined spaces and can disinfect a cockpit in less than 15 minutes, said Boeing, which has asked “various industry representatives” such as Etihad Airways, the first to evaluate the device on a flight in late August.