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    <periodOfReport>2024-01-12</periodOfReport>

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        <issuerName>New Horizon Aircraft Ltd.</issuerName>
        <issuerTradingSymbol>HOVR</issuerTradingSymbol>
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            <rptOwnerName>Lee Stewart Murray</rptOwnerName>
        </reportingOwnerId>
        <reportingOwnerAddress>
            <rptOwnerStreet1>C/O NEW HORIZON AIRCRAFT, LTD.</rptOwnerStreet1>
            <rptOwnerStreet2>3187 HIGHWAY 35</rptOwnerStreet2>
            <rptOwnerCity>LINDSAY</rptOwnerCity>
            <rptOwnerState>A6</rptOwnerState>
            <rptOwnerZipCode>K9V 4R1</rptOwnerZipCode>
            <rptOwnerStateDescription>ONTARIO, CANADA</rptOwnerStateDescription>
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            <officerTitle>Head of People &amp; Strategy</officerTitle>
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    <footnotes>
        <footnote id="F1">Received in exchange for 136,200 shares of Robinson Aircraft Ltd. d/b/a Horizon Air (&quot;Horizon&quot;) in connection with the January 12, 2024 amalgamation (the &quot;Amalgamation&quot;) of Horizon and Pono Capital Three, Inc. to form New Horizon Aircraft, Ltd.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F2">Converted from Canadian exercise price of C$0.91 using an exchange rate of C$1.3387 = US$1.00.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F3">Received in the Amalgamation in exchange for an existing option to acquire 42,000 shares of Horizon for C$0.76 per share.  The options were originally issued on August 2, 2022, with a three-year vesting period (33% vesting annually).</footnote>
    </footnotes>

    <ownerSignature>
        <signatureName>/s/ Stewart Murray Lee</signatureName>
        <signatureDate>2024-01-24</signatureDate>
    </ownerSignature>
</ownershipDocument>
