Advanced Air Mobility

Dufour Aerospace is to receive a CHF2.5 million ($2.8 million) grant from the Swiss government under an accelerator program run by innovation agency Innosuisse.

The Advanced Air Mobility Stock Composite climbed 8.5% in its strongest week of the year so far, led higher by a massive rally in Archer Aviation.

Clean Sky 2’s Distributed Electric Propulsion Scaled Flight Demonstrator is a write-off after a fire during tests at the Netherlands aerospace research center.

Skyports Infrastructure is a company seeking to develop networks of vertiports around the world to accommodate the expected onset of electric air taxis.

Overair is assembling the first uncrewed full-scale demonstrator for its Butterfly tiltrotor electric-vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft.

Barcelona, Spain-based BOLD Valuable Technology was founded in 2019 by Formula 1 design engineer Bernat Carreras to develop high-performance battery systems.

U.S. startup Doroni Aerospace has launched a Series A offering, aiming to raise $20-30 million to develop its H1 Hummingbird two-seat personal eVTOL vehicle.

NASA’s electrified aircraft propulsion flight demonstration programs face cost overruns and schedule delays, the agency’s inspector general says.

The U.S. Air Force’s Agility Prime program has established airspace innovation and battery energy storage teams.

German aerospace center DLR is planning a new facility for full-scale crash and impact testing of helicopters and electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing craft.

Reliable Robotics has demonstrated autonomous takeoff, flight and landing of its retrofitted Cessna Caravan 208 aircraft for the U.S. Air Force.

The U.S. Department of Transportation has created an interagency working group to help direct strategy and policies related to advanced air mobility.

Cosmic is targeting entry into service in 2028 using batteries with a specific energy of 300 Wh/kg at the pack level.

Hyundai company Supernal has partnered with, and invested in, Echodyne.

The diversity of use cases for uncrewed traffic management requires a new approach to prioritizing airspace access.

The Advanced Air Mobility Stock Composite logged a modest 2.1% gain during the week ending May 12.

Seoul’s metropolitan government has selected routes for urban air mobility demonstration flights in 2024-25.

First flight tests are planned as early as 2024.

Merlin Labs is working with the New Zealand Civil Aviation Authority to certify its autonomous flight system in the Cessna Caravan.

The Alice is a clean-sheet battery-electric commuter airplane with a traditional conventional-takeoff-and-landing (CTOL) design.

First flight is scheduled for 2026.

The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has released an updated road map for artificial intelligence (AI) in aviation.

Archer Aviation has announced the rollout of its first Midnight air taxi prototype.

Swedish aircraft lessor and investment company Rockton has firmed up a letter of intent (LoI) for 40 hybrid-electric ES-30 aircraft from Heart Aerospace.

The standards that pilots of these powered-lift aircraft must meet are also expected to be completed by that time, he said.