Advanced Air Mobility

Industry has welcomed the FAA’s revisions to the airworthiness criteria for Joby Aviation’s S4 electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft.

Surf Air Mobility has signed am MOU with Tanzanian regional carrier Auric Air Services to upgrade 12 of its Cessna Caravans with its electric powertrains.

The AAM Stock Composite rose by around 9% during the week ending March 22, boosted by a continued rally in shares of EHang.

AeroHT is developing the Land-based Aircraft Carrier, an all-electric, five-passenger off-road SUV that carries a two-passenger multirotor eVTOL in its trunk.

The CarryAll is the first version of AutoFlight’s planned Prosperity family of 2,000-kg gross weight eVTOL uncrewed cargo and piloted passenger aircraft.

Lockheed Martin Ventures led a group of 14 investors that raised a $12.5 million seed round investment in Firestorm Labs.

The FAA has released proposed special conditions for type certification of electric engines developed by Beta Technologies and Safran.

U.S. autonomous aviation startup Reliable Robotics has announced the receipt of two new contract awards from the Department of Defense and NASA.

Eve Air Mobility has chosen the name Vector for its in-development urban air traffic management solution, with first deliveries now planned for 2026.

A UK-based startup has begun flight tests of a co-axial, rotary-wing UAS that it hopes to bring to the military market in the next two years.

A ranking of AAM infrastructure startups, March 2024.

Liquidity of AAM startups as of end of Q4 2023.

Automaker Stellantis has completed the open-market purchase of an additional 8.3 million shares in eVTOL vehicle developer Archer Aviation.

The Incheon metropolitan government has released an advanced air mobility concept of operations for the port city, South Korea’s third largest metropolis.

Joby Aviation has agreed to deliver two aircraft to MacDill AFB in Tampa, Florida, widening its existing partnership with the U.S. Air Force.

Routine drone operations across the country by 2027 and autonomous air taxi demonstration flights by 2030 are among targets set in the future aviation plan.

Integrating the first UAM aircraft into today’s urban airspace environments is going to be a huge challenge, a UK panel says.

The high discharge rates required during takeoff by electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft could dramatically reduce battery cycle life.

EHang reported improved sales and deliveries alongside its financial results for the fourth quarter.

The AAM Stock Composite rose better than 8% during the week ending March 15, boosted by a massive rally in EHang.

Spanish companies will use a microsatellite built by Kongsberg NanoAvionics to test their planned space-based air traffic management (ATM) system.

Charging for electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing air taxis could increase electrical demand at vertiport sites by six-seven times.

The Varied AAM Noise and Geographic Area Response Difference (Vangard) test will use NASA’s recently developed Remote Psychoacoustic Test Platform.

To explore consumer willingness to participate in AAM by flying on eVTOL aircraft, an online survey of 975 individuals in the U.S. was conducted.

Southwest Airlines is exploring the feasibility of an inter-island and intra-island seaglider network in Hawaii.