Advanced Air Mobility

Taiwan will spend NT$44.2 billion ($1.4 billion) to scale up manufacturing of uncrewed aircraft systems and become an Asia-Pacific drone production hub by 2030.

Archer Aviation expects to start FAA certification flight-testing of the four-passenger battery-electric Midnight air taxi next year.

A Beta Technologies electric aircraft on short-term lease to Air New Zealand has been delivered and has conducted its first flights in New Zealand.

U.S. electric aircraft startup Beta Technologies has priced its planned initial public offering at $27-33 per share, for gross proceeds of $675-825 million.

Boeing subsidiary Wisk Aero is gearing up for a first flight of its Gen 6 autonomous eVTOL air taxi “very, very soon,” the startup’s CEO said.

Air taxi developer Archer Aviation announced it has won a competitive bid process to acquire the patents of insolvent electric aircraft manufacturer Lilium.

Chinese startup Volant Aerotech has completed the first series of manned flight trials in its VE25-100 lift-plus-cruise eVTOL.

Chinese hybrid eVTOL startup XPeng AeroHT has rebranded itself to Aridge, while also announcing scores of new orders from customers in the Middle East.

“This year is a record in terms of investment in technologies,” Embraer President and CEO Francisco Gomes Neto says.

Airbus Helicopters is to absorb the fixed-wing uncrewed air system programs of Airbus-owned Survey Copter into its portfolio.

China’s EHang has lifted the curtain on its VT35, a long-range, autonomous eVTOL intended for intercity flying.

Vertiports By Atlantic named Cushman & Wakefield as its preferred advisor for site selection and development of its future vertiport network.

London eVTOL operations will require buy-in from existing urban public transportation providers and local and national governmental entities, officials say.

The Coventry, UK, city council has deployed uncrewed aircraft systems on a wide variety of missions.

Evolito and short-takeoff-and-landing (STOL) hybrid aircraft developer Electra.aero have announced a long-term partnership.

China’s Aerofugia has rolled out the first AE200-100 eVTOL air taxi off its production line in Chengdu, Sichuan Province.

This is providing fresh capital to help onboard new employees and advance flight testing of the Laila uncrewed hybrid eVTOL.

Joby Aviation has closed an equity sale worth $513.9 million in a move that fortifies its balance sheet as it gears up for the final stages of the FAA type certification process.

As Joby Aviation accelerates on its path to type certification of its S4 eVTOL air taxi, Chief Product Officer Eric Allison sat down with Aviation Week.

The UK government-sponsored Future Flight Challenge officially came to an end in 2024, but on Sept. 29 the follow-on Future Flight Program announced a £4.4 million slate of awards.

Two documents serve to outline efforts to help develop the UK’s electric air industry by the country’s regulator and illustrate how contentious its work is.

Embaer spinoff Eve Air Mobility is targeting the first flight of its prototype eVTOL air taxi by late this year or early next.

U.S. startup Tidal Flight has been awarded an Air Force AFWERX contract to further develop its hybrid-electric Polaris seaplane.

Archer and Joby are understood to have joined Advanced Air Mobility Group in placing competing bids for Lilium, the insolvent electric aircraft manufacturer.

Archer and Joby displayed their eVTOL aircraft at the California International Airshow in Salinas on Oct. 4-5.