Advanced Air Mobility
Dec 05, 2025
Beta Technologies used its first earnings call to send a clear message that it is shifting from R&D and prototyping to manufacturing conforming test articles.
Dec 04, 2025
The agency’s Lift Challenge aims for at least a fourfold increase in drone payload-to-weight capability.
Dec 03, 2025
GoAero Prize announced eight teams that will move on to the 2027 fly0off for it's $2 million competition to create VTOL emergency response aircraft.
Dec 03, 2025
SkyGrid has launched a new multi-year cooperative R&D pact with MIT Lincoln Laboratory aimed at developing very-high-resolution weather forecasting for AAM.
Dec 02, 2025
French multinational utility EDF has increased its year-old investment in Toulouse-based electric aircraft startup Aura Aero to €2 million, and other briefs.
Dec 02, 2025
As 2025 draws to a close, Aviation Week editors Ben Goldstein and Graham Warwick chart the highs and lows in the advanced air mobility sector this year.
Dec 02, 2025
X-plane escapes cancellation; China’s hybrid powertrains; Modular cargo UAV, India’s indigenous aircraft.
Dec 01, 2025
China’s Aerofugia has completed a Series C funding round to support certification and production of its AE200-100 electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing eVTOL.
Dec 05, 2025
Beta Technologies used its first earnings call to send a clear message that it is shifting from R&D and prototyping to manufacturing conforming test articles.
Dec 04, 2025
EHang delivered 41 EH216-S autonomous eVTOL multicopters in the third quarter, down from 68 aircraft in Q2 of last year.
Dec 04, 2025
China’s TCab Technology has joined the select group of startups that have transitioned between thrustborne vertical and wingborne horizontal flight.
Dec 04, 2025
A job advert posted by Anduril indicates that work is underway on a vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) UAS in the Group 5 size category.
Dec 04, 2025
Prague-based hybrid-VTOL startup Zuri is planning a major shift from years of subscale demonstrators to a full-envelope tiltrotor prototype flight campaign in 2026.
Dec 04, 2025
The key role business aviation could play in the rollout of advanced air mobility is clear in Archer Aviation’s unveiling of its planned air taxi network in South Florida.
Dec 03, 2025
Advanced air mobility startups are looking to defense for early revenues, so Electra.aero is forming a dedicated defense unit to pursue potential military uses.
Dec 03, 2025
Hopscotch Air is using a "mini-IPO" to raise funds to expand its fleet of Cirrus aircraft, and to develop partnerships for developing electric regional aircraft.