Advanced Air Mobility

The AAM Stock Composite's largest loser last month was Archer (-20%).

The vast publicity, hype and investment that have swirled around the urban air taxi sector have obscured a host of other applications for electric aviation.

China’s EHang has become the first eVTOL aircraft manufacturer to receive an operating certificate to fly fare-paying passengers.

Electric aviation executives insist their main pitch to potential customers and investors is improved efficiency, reliability and maintainability.

A Rotax piston aeroengine, a popular powerplant for light aircraft, has been converted to run on hydrogen by Austria-based Bosch Aviation Technology.

The installation of a fuel cell system in a flying testbed is being prepared by German startup Hyfly as it progresses development of a hydrogen-electric powertrain for light aircraft.

OsakaKo Vertiport, a facility for electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft, has been completed by Osaka Metro Co. in Japan.

The partnership will see Archer send Midnight electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft to Ethiopia for air taxi operations.

Key collaborations have been announced by Australia’s fledgling sustainable aviation industry to advance development of electric- and hydrogen-powered aircraft.

Sustainability and decarbonization were front and center at the two-day “Airbus Summit” held in Toulouse on March 24-25.

ZeroAvia and Reliable Robotics are studying the integration of hydrogen-electric propulsion onto a Cessna with automation tech to make an uncrewed aircraft.

ZeroAvia is working with U.S. and UK regulators to certify elements of its hydrogen-electric powertrain.

The process to select a site for production of the planned Kona blended wing body regional cargo aircraft has been launched by Natilus.

The United Aircraft TD500 co-axial uncrewed helicopter has attained type certification from the Civil Aviation Administration of China.

The UK Civil Aviation Authority is planning at least two larger-scale beyond visual line of sight UAV trials before the end of 2025.

The first untethered hover flight of a full-scale engineering prototype of the LE200 eVTOL has been completed by Chinese startup Range Aviation.

The FAA has accepted XTI Aerospace's application for type certification of the TriFan 600 VTOL business aircraft.

Australia has awarded vertiport startup Skyportz a provisional patent for a vertipad design that ameliorates a potential issue with eVTOL aircraft.

The wing was made using new production techniques and was subjected to progressive loads that exceeded the expected load limit by more than 200%, Embraer says.

Letters of intent to acquire the Ultra Short come from more than 50 companies and Electra.aero values those preorders at nearly $9 billion.

Little attention has been paid to the use of small, unmanned aircraft, or drones, presumably because they will not carry passengers.

Rune Aero is using an interactive virtual wind tunnel powered by physics-based machine learning algorithms to optimize an autonomous cargo aircraft design.

Pyka has begun commercial operations in three countries using its fixed-wing, all-electric aerial application drone.

Eve Air Mobility and South Korean operator UI Helicopter have signed a memorandum of understanding to help develop an AAM ecosystem in South Korea.

Beyond Aero has unveiled major changes in the design of its One business jet, a 6- to 8-seat, 800 nm-range aircraft relying on hydrogen-electric propulsion.