Brazilian airline Azul has signed a MOU for the acquisition of 220 Lilium Jets; the companies plan to partner on a regional high-speed transportation system in Brazil.
Regional air mobility startup Electra is teaming under a NASA contract with researchers at the University of Southern California to mature blown lift technologies for electric short-takeoff-and-landing aircraft.
Chinese autonomous air vehicle (AAV) startup EHang has begun operations at its newly commissioned production facility in Yunfu, around 100 mi. west of its Guangzhou headquarters.
With eight issues of the Advanced Air Mobility Report under our belts, one of the staggering pieces of data we have encountered is the number of companies involved in the emerging market.
Backed by XPeng Motors, startup XPeng Huitian has flown the Voyager X2, a two-seat multicopter described as its fifth generation of electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicle.
A U.S. District Court judge has denied Wisk Aero’s petition for a preliminary injunction against Archer Aviation in its legal action accusing the rival urban air mobility startup of stealing its trade secrets.
The technical collaboration with Deutsche Aircraft is the first to be announced to involve the use of Universal Hydrogen’s capsules in an aircraft with another company’s hydrogen propulsion system.
A Los Angeles-based commuter airline plans to purchase up to 150 Cessna Grand Caravan EX turboprops from Textron Aviation with plans to convert them into hybrid-electric aircraft for commercial air travel.
Archer’s claim to have independently developed its electric air taxi design is a “fairy tale,” Wisk alleged in a brief submitted in support of its motion for a preliminary injunction against its urban air mobility (UAM) rival.
Universal Hydrogen will retrofit ATR 72 and de Havilland Canada Dash 8 regional turboprops operated by Icelandair, Air Nostrum and Ravn Alaska with hydrogen fuel-cell power trains.
Drone Delivery Canada plans to test expedited deliveries from Edmonton International Airport in Alberta to local businesses under a yearlong project with the airport, Apple Express Courier and Ziing Final Mile.
The leaders in advanced air mobility are storytellers, and the stories they tell are playing central roles in their plans to raise billions of dollars by going public via mergers with blank-check companies.
United Airlines and its regional affiliate Mesa Airlines have conditionally agreed to order 200 19-passenger electric airliners from Heart Aerospace as they participated in the Swedish startup's $35 million Series A funding round.
A long-established manufacturer of kit helicopters plans to enter the already crowded electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing market by capitalizing on the proven rotor system from its existing product line.
Gyroplane developer Skyworks Aeronautics has teamed with two South Korean startups in a bid to tap into the country’s ambitious plans to commercialize urban air mobility.
The U.S. Air Force and its Agility Prime team have signed a contract with Electra to further advance the company’s development of hybrid-electric propulsion systems for electric ultrashort takeoff and landing (eSTOL) aircraft.
Dufour Aerospace has signed on with AirMobility Inc. to enter the Japanese electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) market in time for the 2025 Osaka Expo.
Embraer subsidiary Eve Urban Air Mobility has agreed to supply Blade with 60,000 flight hours a year of service in Southern California and the West Coast beginning in 2026.
Blank-check company Broadstone Acquisition has cited the deep aerospace industry experience of the team backing Vertical Aerospace as a key reason behind its decision to take the UK electric air-taxi startup public with backing from industry partners and airline customers.
