Advanced Air Mobility

Joby Aviation has detailed the path by which it hopes to gain approval to launch passenger operations in the United Arab Emirates.

The 2025 Dubai Airshow featured perhaps the strongest advanced air mobility (AAM) showing of any major airshow to date.

ZeroAvia has received Design Organization Approval from the UK Civil Aviation Authority.

Lunar Blessing is looking to launch an on-demand luxury air taxi service in the UAE and nearby countries.

The CEO of Lift Aircraft says interest in its Hexa 2 personal eVTOL is taking off in the Middle East after a series of recent demonstration flights in Abu Dhabi.

Regent is making a splash with a full-size immersive mock-up of its flagship Viceroy Seaglider at the Dubai Airshow with the UAE a key market for the company.

For an AAM industry approaching critical capital depletion timelines, the disconnect between spectacle and substance poses existential risks.

Air taxi developer Joby is marking its debut at Dubai Airshow as the first-ever eVTOL company to perform aerial demonstrations here as it prepares to launch local services next year.

After securing early engagement authority from the U.S. FAA last year, Honda R&D is working on finalizing technologies for an electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft.

Abu Dhabi venture Autocraft is presenting the Chinese-made fixed-wing tiltrotor eVTOL aircraft called the E20+ at the Dubai Airshow.

Followers of the emerging eVTOL industry often speak of the “Big Three” Western startups: Archer, Beta Technologies and Joby. But should there be a “Big Four”?

Joby Aviation plans to bring hybrid-electric propulsion to its commercial air taxis.

Abu Dhabi-based Lodd has begun flight trials of its autonomous Hili cargo aircraft which is designed to replace the trucks and aircraft that are linking logistics hubs with distribution centers.

As U.S. eVTOL startups look ahead to the start of certification flight testing with the FAA, questions remain.

XTI Aerospace, a developer of vertical flight technologies and VTOL aircraft, has paid $40 million to acquire Drone Nerds.

Joby Aviation has signed a letter of intent with Alatau Advance Air Group in Kazakhstan to sell up to $250 million of eVTOL aircraft and services.

Netherlands-based Ambitious Air Mobility Group has signed binding investment terms with Czech electric air taxi startup Zuri.

The UK has launched a series of maritime drone projects aimed at demonstrating the ability to improve sustainability.

Joby Aviation appears to have powered up the uncrewed hybrid-electric version of its S4 vertical takeoff-and-landing air taxi.

Canada’s Unither Bioelectronics is modifying its Robinson R44 the proof-of-concept demonstrator to use liquid hydrogen.

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.