Plans to develop a maintenance/repair/overhaul (MRO) cluster at Twente Airport in the Netherlands are to be pared back in favor of exploring services related to testing new technologies and opening to business aviation flights as the site’s organizers plot a long-term pathway.
Gogo Business Aviation says it remains on track to complete a 150-tower 5G air-to-ground network serving the contiguous U.S. by the second half of 2022.
When Tavistock Development completed the master plan for its Lake Nona development in Florida, part of the vision was connectivity for the people living there—a multimodal transportation strategy that includes autonomous ground vehicles and a bicycle network within the community.
In preparation for discussions with partners on building infrastructure to support urban air mobility, Volocopter has released a handbook on the design, construction and operation of its VoloPort modular vertiport.
Ohio’s AAM center of gravity is the Springfield-Beckley Municipal Airport, home to the new National Advanced Air Mobility Center of Excellence and the Ohio Unmanned Aircraft Systems Center.
Beta sees its plans for a Tesla Supercharger-style network of chargers as a key differentiator that sets it apart from other developers of eVTOL vehicles.
The test center at Pontoise-Cormeilles will be used for real-world trials of electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) aircraft and the supporting ecosystem.
Dubai has launched a program to enable drone transportation by creating an infrastructure to test unmanned aircraft in designated areas and develop legislation to enable their implementation.
As urban air mobility leaders target congested cities such as Los Angeles as launch markets for air taxi services, efforts to secure convenient vertiport locations are accelerating.
Yeager Airport in Charleston, West Virginia, is going all-in to develop a complete system to support electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing air service, through new partnerships.
Existing composite materials and manufacturing processes will not scale to the production volumes envisioned for advanced air mobility and startups should consider collaborating to qualify new technologies, urges a company formed to help companies scale up manufacturing.
South Korean automaker Hyundai has renamed its urban air mobility division Supernal and plans to begin certification of its electric air taxi in the U.S. in 2024, aiming to launch commercial flights in 2028.
The National Business Aviation Association hailed the final passage by the U.S. House of Representatives of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act that contains measures to support efforts to attract and retain aviation workers, fund improvements for general aviation airports and spur next-generation programs.
West Coast-based Archer Aviation plans to head East to set up a network in Miami, powered by Archer’s electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft, and in parallel to its efforts to establish a network in Los Angeles.
As firm orders for advanced air mobility aircraft begin to grow—to more than 200 this week as indicated in our October orders count—metropolitan areas around the globe are setting up frameworks to help establish and grow AAM capabilities.
With target dates for the launch of electric air taxi services drawing closer, more manufacturers are striking deals aimed at ensuring infrastructure will be in place when their aircraft are ready.
Italian and French airport operators have formed a company, Urban Blue, with international ambitions to design, build and manage the vertiport infrastructure for urban air mobility.
Korea Aerospace Industries has unveiled plans to develop commercial and military versions of an electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicle, in passenger and unmanned cargo variants.
A white paper outlining the benefits of advanced air mobility, created by a group of UK stakeholders, lays out an ambitious road map of actions required by 2025 if the country is to become a leader in the emerging market.
ABB’s E-mobility unit will develop, test and supply the MegaWatt fast-charging infrastructure required for the quick turnaround times needed for electric aviation.
