Advanced Air Mobility

The AAM Stock Composite rallied nearly 12% during the week ending July 12, boosted by large gains in Archer and Joby.

Pivotal says it has delayed customer deliveries of its Helix personal electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft to 2025.

Archer Aviation and Southwest Airlines have partnered to evaluate the integration of Midnight air taxis into the carrier’s operations across California.

The study was conducted by Lufthansa Innovation Hub alongside Roland Berger, V2AIR and Unisphere.

The demise of Universal Hydrogen is forcing French regional carrier Amelia to revise its plans for cutting its environmental footprint.

Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Ottobrun near Munich, ERC Systems is seeking to launch services later this decade.

Pyka and Brazil’s SLC Agricola have signed a commercial agreement for the delivery of Pyka’s Pelican Spray autonomous aerial application aircraft.

The UK regulator also struck an agreement with the European Union Aviation Safety Agency to closely cooperate on type certification.

Located on a barge in the River Seine near the Paris-Austerlitz train station, the floating platform is to be used for takeoffs and landings.

Leonardo Helicopters has tested the performance of Daedalean’s visual awareness system in flights using two helicopters.

Japanese nonprofit MASC has launched a project to commercialize advanced air mobility (AAM) in Japan’s Setouchi region.

Boundary.AI has raised almost 100 million yuan ($14 million) in pre-Series A funding.

Airbus has added more partners and a new region to its hydrogen infrastructure studies.

Developed by the Klimov division of UEC, the hybrid powerplant is based on the VK-650K.

Ovzon says its Ovzon 3 small geostationary orbit communications satellite is ready to start commercial service.

The AAM Stock Composite rose 4% during the week ending July 5, lifted by gains in Archer and EHang.

Vertical Aerospace has dropped plans to perform flight demonstrations at the Farnborough Airshow, citing a need to prioritize its flight test program.

Hydrogen has an unusual characteristic that could be a key to its cost-effective deployment as a zero-emission fuel for aviation.

The AAM Reality Index ranks startup OEMs based on likelihood of achieving type certification, commercialization and mass production.

Spain’s Sener has supplied the first servo actuators to Lilium for certification testing.

The AAM Stock Composite dropped 3% during the week ending June 28.

David Stepanek is the executive VP and Chief Transformation Officer at Bristow Group.

American Airlines has signed a conditional purchase agreement with ZeroAvia for 100 hydrogen-electric engines to power regional jets.

Embraer spinoff Eve Air Mobility has secured a further $94 million in equity financing from multiple investors.

Volocopter returned to the top slot in the June edition of the AAM Reality Index with a score of 8.6/10.