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Our Towbarless Tugs – Overview

Simple. Safe. And extremely effective.

Mototok Aircraft Tugs – leading electric, towbarless aircraft and helicopter tugs with remote control, used worldwide in aviation for Pushback, Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (MRO) operations.
Mototok Tugs are battery-operated, remote-controlled device with a hydraulic platform that encloses the nose wheel and fixes it safely and gently. All functions such as opening the nose wheel door, fixing the nose wheel and lifting the platform are triggered “hands-free” by means of the remote control.

Mototok Tugs are powered by two extremely powerful high-torque electric motors on each side with high cycling capability which provide enormous driving forces. Extremely high initial torque ensures smooth acceleration, particularly at the start. The operation capacity is capable for 30-50 pushback operations per charge with towing capacity of up to 200 Tons and nosewheel weight capacity of up to 22 Tons.

The difference to any other tug system: Flexibility, safety, cost savings – at the highest innovative level.

Mototok tugs outperform other aircraft tugs with their fully electric drive, zero-emission operation, and remote-controlled precision. It only requires a single staff to operate. With it’s highly precise manoeuvring abilities and elaborate design, Mototok Tugs reliably optimize usage of limited space in the hangar and on the apron. Mototok Tugs also provide operator with All-round visibility which eliminate knocks and collisions, hence ensure safety manoeuvring of your aircrafts. Mototok Tugs are equipped with I-NPS (Intelligent Nose gear Protection System) which remove the risk of oversteering the nose gear of the aircraft. On top of that, Mototok Tugs are time efficient in departure delay reductions.

Automatic Hydraulic Nosegear Loading

Sensor controlled – smart, fast, easy and safe.

Loading the nose wheel with a Mototok TWIN electric tug is quick and easy. No winch, no lashing straps, no laborious bending down to fix the nose wheel. Let the hydraulic system do the work for you!
Drive the Mototok with opened hydraulical door and lowered platform towards the nose wheel of the aircraft until the nose wheel touches the inner wedge the nose wheel platform. Then press the start-button on the remote control.
The hydraulical door closes. If necessary, the sliding table is adjustable for fitting smaller nose wheels.
The sliding table presses the nose wheel towards the closed hydraulical door until a specified pressure is reached.
The platform lifts up and raises the nose wheel.
Lastly the operator has to bring down the safety paddles manually – ready for moving the aircraft. The whole procedure takes 10-15 seconds only.

AUTOMATIC LOADING TWIN

Automatic Loading Function of a Mototok TWIN-Series For FBO
Purposes.

AUTOMATIC LOADING SPACER

Automatic Loading Function of a Mototok Spacer 8600NG for Pushback
Purposes.

Moving your Aircraft the innovative Way.

Manouevering with Mototok is the easiest by far. The fuselage and wingtips remain in position whilst turning the nose gear on the spot for manoeuvering. With Mototok both turning the nose gear and moving the aircraft are two completely different movements – the deciding advantage of the Mototok tug sytem. The result is a minimum requirement of space whilst shunting the aircraft. This example shows that turning an aircraft by 90° reduces manoevering space to a circle.

  • Best overall sight thanks to remote controlled maneuverings
  • No winches, no straps, automatic convenient and automatic quick nose gear loading
  • Low maintenance thanks to full electric drive
  • Lowest space requirement when pushing or pulling the aircraft
  • An automatic hydraulic and sensor-controlled system unique in this class of aircraft tugs ensures that with the Mototok M-Series, loading and unloading the nose gear is quick, simple, and safe.

Why Mototok does a much better Job?

In direct comparison with Mototok, the disadvantages of the other tug systems are obvious.

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Conventional Tractor with a Towbar

Maneuvering with a towbar means “steering by moving“. Turning the nose gear and moving the aircraft are two inseparable motions when using a tow bar. Turning the nose wheel is only possible when the aircraft is moved backwards or forwards. The aircraft has to be moved several metres for the nose gear to turn and move the aircraft into another direction. This in turn increases the space needed for extensive manoeuvering.

Others disadvantages are:

  • Many different tow bars have to be stored for different types of aircraft
  • High risk of accidents and damage of the aircraft
  • Minimum second person as a ,,wing walker” needede because the driver has no overview from his position
  • High maintenace level due to combustion engine

Other towbarless Tugs

This principle means also “steering by moving“. The space requirement for maneuvering is approximately the same as with using a tow bar.

  • Winches and straps for fixation often needed
  • Minimum second person as a ,,wing walker” needed because the driver has no overview from his position
  • The vehicles have big dimensions and need a lot of parking space

Tugs with a rotary table

The nose landing gear is clamped on a rotating turntable to prevent damage to the nose wheel if the maximum turning angle of the nose wheel is reached. The aircraft tractor can continue to turn, but the turntable remains stationary.

  • Can load the aircraft only from the side of the aircraft.
  • The Oversteering Protection that is supposed to take place through the use of the turntable only works reliably when pulling the aircraft. When pushing, the turntable behaves similarly to the caster of a shopping trolley due to the tracking of the nose wheels: the wheel will turn around its vertical axis. This can only be corrected by manually or electrically countersteering the table.
  • No automatic fixation of the nosegear: there is no technically simple way to bring hydraulic or electric lines into the rotating platform without risking a premature defect.
  • Safety issue: Due to the large and unfavourably placed drive wheels, there is a danger of crushing the operators feet during manoeuvring.

Tons of benefits and less trouble by far

Mototok excels in tight situations: Park your aircraft safely, ­easily and effectively where you want: In the hangars corner, directly towards the hangars wall or near by other aircraft in the hangar. Mototok tugs help airports to optimize their hangar efficiency: Save space in the process – accommodate up to 60% more aircraft in your hangar!
Operating with normal tugs with or without a towbar is intricate. Turning the nose wheel whilst maneuvering without moving the aircraft is impossible. Additionally the operator has to consider the exit path of the tug. Thus, parking the aircraft with old technology is unprofitable. You are not able to use your hangars full capacity.

The low height, the compact design and the radio remote control of mototok tugs gives you the fully control of the hangars space. It saves costs through optimized use of limited space.

Conventional Tractor with a Towbar

Low utilization of your hangar with a conventional tow tractor or TBL. The biggest disadvantages are: All aircraft faces to the hangars gate because you have to consider the exit path of the tow tractor. Parking directly in a hangars corner is impossible. The distance between the aircraft has to beacceptably big.

Hangar Situation with Mototok Towbarless Tug

Up to 60% more utilization with an emission-free towbarless mototok aircraft tug. Park your aircraft directly towards a wall or in the hangars corner. You don’t have to consider the exit path of mototok. “Stack“ aircraft – park your aircraft with extreme minimal distance. Maneuvering in extreme narrow situations is no problem.

Mototok. More Effectivity.

Safe and easy 1-Man-Operation thanks to remote control.

Inefficient and complicated job requiring 4 people

Benefits at a glance.

Increase Performance. Avoid Accidents.

Exceptionally Compact Design.

Thanks to Mototok's extremely flat format, you don't need to allow for an exit path in your hangar, and problems with equipment mounted underneath the fuselage are a thing of the past.

Easy and Safe Operation.

Automatic processes, full programmability and easy usage that doesn’t even require trainings: Human error posing risk to machines and men is virtually taken out of the equation.

One Man Operation.

As Mototok tugs are moved with a radio remote control providing 100% visibility, towing with a mototok is a foolproof one-man-operation without the need for a wingman.

Excellent Green Credentials.

Extremely powerful and emission-free electrical motors, driven by high-performance, maintenance-free GEL batteries with high cycling capability provide enormous driving forces. A fully-electric Mototok tug with zero emissions is the sustainable alternative to diesel aircraft tugs.

Quickest ROI.

Low maintenance and personnel costs and a truly remarkable performance increase: Industrywide, Mototoks are the tugs with the quickest Return On Investment.

Flexible Use.

Whether in the hangar, on the tarmac or in the production hall: one type of machine suitable to a wide range of machines, plus including GPU and Pushback. Mototok offers a full range of fully-electric, towbarless aircraft tugs for almost all tasks in airport operations and almost every aircraft type in the industry.

Optional Features

Mototok CPU

Order Mototok with a central processing unit (CPU) for features and adjustments relating to

  • Towing and braking forces
  • Oversteering protection
  • Voice announcements
  • Unit diagnostics
  • Log files
  • User access

The CPU can be linked with any mobile device (smartphone, tablet or laptop) via bluetooth, WLAN or USB and a standard internet browser (like Microsoft Edge, Apple Safari, Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox). Once you are linked to the system, you are able to manage many kinds of adjustments of the Mototok.

Log in with RFID

The quickest log in can be done via a RFID-card and an appropriate card reader on the machine. According to the authorization level, the user is able to move the Mototok, check or adjust the settings or read out the log files.

Service Management.

Work in collaboration online with our technicians if the need arises.

With the help of Mototok cloud our technicians can access all para­meters of your tug in real time – all movements, switch positions and sensor values. We literally see what’s happening to your tug right now.

AGV – Autonomous driving

Increase the level of automation by using our solutions for autonomous driving. Mototok can be controlled visually by a line on the ground. Barcodes trigger certain commands in the driving computer: braking, accelerating, changing direction, etc. Mototok can also be controlled by induction loops laid in the floor. Control by means of GPS coordinates is also possible. On production lines during aircraft manufacture, Mototok is a versatile tool that can be used with great flexibility. During assembly, Mototok automatically moves the aircraft fuselage to the individual assembly points. In very space-restricted production environments, two synchronized Mototoks may also be used.

Made in Germany

INNOVATION MEETS RELIABILITY

Top Quality Materials.

Handpicked components of highest quality equip our products for heavy usage and guarantee their reliably sustainable stable value.

German Engineering.

Inventive genius aimed at smooth functionality, German perfectionism and detail orientation aimed at your advantage: After 5 years of development time, our tugs flaunt technological approaches that are virtually unheard-of.

Low-Maintenance.

Unlike conventional tractors, our electrical tugs are virtually maintenance free and capable of withstanding the toughest conditions - no troublesome oil changes, universal joints or air filters.
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