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By Ben Goldstein
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.
Advanced Air Mobility

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

By Tony Osborne
Airbus Helicopters is to absorb the fixed-wing uncrewed air system programs of Airbus-owned Survey Copter into its portfolio.
Aircraft & Propulsion

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

By Ben Goldstein
As more focus has concentrated on flight test and manufacturing progress, a new consensus is that Joby is leading Archer by at least a year, possibly several.
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By Lindsay Bjerregaard
Ascent Aviation Services has chosen Block Aero Technologies to digitalize its used serviceable material business and open doors to selling parts in China.
Services & Support

By Ben Goldstein
California startup AIBOT has officially unveiled its product line of small quadcopter drones and tiltwing, multirotor eVTOL aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
China’s EHang announced a strategic cooperation with the Hefei Provincial Government to establish a “product hub” for its VT35 lift-plus-cruise eVTOL aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
AAM Briefs: Archer, NASA and more.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
China’s eVTOL developers have moved rapidly up the ranking of the emerging global advanced air mobility industry, displaying a pace of advance unmatched by even the West’s most aggressive startups.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Garrett Reim
Pyka has won a firm order for 60 autonomous crop duster aircraft to be sold to a Brazilian distributor.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Ben Goldstein
German aerospace researcher John Lou has made a name for himself as a thought leader in advanced air mobility circles. Now, he's developing a battlefield drone.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Japanese eVTOL developer SkyDrive announced plans to launch into repeated demonstration flights with its multicopter eVTOL.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
A Slovakian-led research project to develop a hydrogen-powered vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft has been approved to receive almost €60 million ($69 million) in European Union funding.
Advanced Air Mobility

Zaynab Zlitni
Joby has announced a planned doubling of its production footprint at its low-rate facility in Marina, California.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Vertical Aerospace announced the successful closing of a $60 million equity raise, extending its cash runway through the middle of 2026.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Japan’s Marubeni is to resume demonstration flights with Lift Aircraft’s electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) Hexa at the 2025 World Expo in Osaka.
Advanced Air Mobility

Zaynab Zlitni and Ben Goldstein
Skyfly Technologies has successfully completed its first roundtrip flight between two airfields in the UK.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Garrett Reim
Air taxi developer SkyDrive has raised ¥8.3 billion ($56.8 million) including investments from two prominent Japanese rail operators.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Chinese air taxi startup Aerofugia has obtained its operating certificate, the first in the country for a manned eVTOL with tilting propellers.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Joby achieved a major feat in its eVTOL development program late last month when its S4 air taxi made the first piloted transition between vertical hover and forward cruise.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Ben Goldstein
Chinese eVTOL startup Autoflight has broken ground on a final-assembly plant in Wuhan, Hubei Province.
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Aerospace

By Graham Warwick
The FAA plans to conduct additional flight testing with eVTOL OEMs as it works to develop unified performance-based design rules for vertiports and heliports.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
California startup Traverse Aero has launched a fundraising round to build and fly a full-scale demonstrator of its hybrid-electric VTOL Orca.
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