Advanced Air Mobility

China’s ARIDGE has unveiled its new A868 hybrid-electric tiltrotor eVTOL.

UK’s Faraday Institution is conducting a High Performance Cell Challenge that it hopes can spur battery density to enable electric regional flight.

ZeroAvia has been selected to receive an EU grant to establish a commercial hybrid-electric aircraft network in Norway using converted Cessna Caravans.

There are varying degrees of progress for the four major Western eVTOL startups, and they all provided reports for the third quarter of 2025.

Archer announced a pact to acquire Hawthorne Airport in Central Los Angeles, expected to form the operations hub of its planned air taxi network in the city.

The company appointed Ryan Carrithers, whose career includes spaceflight company Astra, among others, as its new chief financial officer.

The Tokyo metropolitan government has laid out a plan to introduce commercial urban air taxi service by 2030, with Archer Aviation, Joby Aviation and SkyDrive participating in a pilot project.

Regent Craft said it will soon resume sea trials with its Viceroy electric seaglider following an accident in in Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay.

Joby Aviation has powered on the first aircraft for use in its Type Inspection Authorization flight test campaign.

Eve Air Mobility, backed by Embraer, signed a framework agreement Nov. 3 with Bahrain’s Ministry of Transportation and Telecommunications (MTT).

The long-awaited first flight of Eve Air Mobility’s engineering prototype is expected by the end of this year or early next year.

Vertical Aerospace, a UK air taxi startup, is set to commence transition flight testing this week.

Beta Technologies has raised more than $1 billion by listing in New York with proceeds set to support the electric aircraft startup's expansion.

Bye Aerospace shifted its production strategy while it works on its full-scale prototype two-seat electric trainer ahead of a planned first flight next year.

Japan Airlines is leveraging a new collaboration with Maeve Aerospace to gain early insight into the design of a hybrid-electric regional aircraft.

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Joby Aviation announced the start of manufacture of conforming propeller blades for its S4 eVTOL air taxi at its factory in Dayton, Ohio.

Nvidia is bringing its artificial-intelligence (AI) computing magic to safety-critical applications in aviation.

H2Fly is gearing up for flight-testing of a “next-generation” fuel cell system, CEO Ralph Mueller says.

China United Aircraft Group on Oct. 30 conducted the first flight of its new T1400 Boying large, uncrewed tandem-rotor helicopter.

The company is taking a contrarian view in the eVTOL market by designing a hybrid, six-passenger aircraft focused on regional air mobility.

After more than a decade without a clean-sheet aircraft, many observers believe the legacy aerospace industry has entered a period of stagnation.

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U.S. startup Merlin has reached a milestone in the development of its Merlin Pilot autonomous flight system.

South Korea has launched the second phase of its advanced air mobility demonstration project with urban demonstration flights in the city of Incheon, bordering the Korean capital Seoul.