Jeffrey DeCarlo, administrator of the Aeronautics Division of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT), has been appointed inaugural chair of the Advanced and Urban Aerial Mobility Cities and Regions Coalition of the World Economic Forum.
UK-based Vertical Aerospace has appointed former European Union Aviation Safety Agency certification director Trevor Woods as its regulatory affairs director.
Advanced air mobility companies have a critical advantage over legacy aerospace business as they transition into manufacturing, according to the leader of Deloitte’s U.S. aerospace and defense consultancy.
Ferrovial Airports has appointed Bob Montgomery as head of vertiports business development and Brad Miller as vertiports managing director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Training systems provider CAE has added another advanced-air-mobility startup to its customer ranks with an agreement to develop the flight-simulation training devices for Joby Aviation’s electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) air taxi.
Lilium has hired Andrew Strachan as its first aircraft test pilot. Strachan has 30 years of experience as a test pilot, including in the UK Royal Air Force, and he recently flew the AW101 helicopter in the James Bond film “Skyfall.”
Wisk Aero is expanding its executive leadership team with the addition of Sebastien Vigneron as senior vice president of engineering and programs and Ricky Robinson as chief people officer.
Gur Kimchi, co-founder of Amazon’s drone delivery service Amazon Prime Air, has joined the board of directors at Near Earth Autonomy, which is working to develop safe and efficient autonomous flight capabilities.
In April, Rob Scholl was named senior vice president for eAviation at Textron, a new position within the industrial conglomerate. Previously senior vice president of sales and marketing at Textron Aviation, he talked to Aviation Week’s Graham Warwick about his new role leading the company’s exploration of the technologies reshaping aviation.
David Neeleman has been appointed to the board of directors of Lilium N.V., effective upon completion of Lilium’s business combination with Qell Acquisition Corp.
