Advanced Air Mobility

MightyFly has demonstrated autonomous flight, loading and unloading as well as load balancing during a demonstration of its Cento uncrewed logistics aircraft.

A growing number of companies have partnered with a startup that has developed computational fluid dynamics solutions for aviation.

The emergent advanced air mobility industry is not short of startups working on ambitious technology programs.

U.S. technology startup Arrive AI has partnered with Skye Air Mobility, an India-based drone delivery platform.

Electric seaglider startup Regent has announced the successful completion of its first crewed hydrofoil trial in Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay.

Spurred by Chief Executive John Lee’s 2024 policy address last October, Hong Kong is staking its claim in China’s growing low-altitude economy.

The White House issued an executive order on June 6 directing the FAA to establish an eVTOL integration pilot program.

Tokyo-based real estate company Mitsui Fudosan has announced it will enter the advanced air mobility sector by developing and operating vertiports in Japan.

UK eVTOL startup Sora Aviation has been awarded two government-supported research projects totaling £2.1 million ($2.8 million).

EASA has signed a pre-application contract with Norway’s Elfly Group to provide the startup with assistance in obtaining a permit to fly a conceptual prototype.

Hybrid-electric for general aviation; UK supports hydrogen aviation; AW139 flies autonomously; Eve refines eVTOL design.

EHang has announced the sale of 41 autonomous EH216-S multicopter eVTOLs to a special economic zone in Changchun, Jilin Province, China.

Archer has a new partnership with private aviation services company JetEx to integrate the Midnight eVTOL into the latter’s network of several dozen FBOs.

Two European startups with ambitions to develop electrified regional airliners have joined forces.

The agreement establishes the partnership framework for potential adoption of hydrogen-electric engines to support zero-emission flights.

The Hydrogen Aircraft Propulsion and Storage System program aims to fly a liquid-hydrogen, fuel-cell powertrain on a De Havilland Canada Dash 8-300.

Lockheed Martin Skunk Works has agreed to explore opportunities with Electra.aero for the startup’s in-development EL9 ultra-short-takeoff-and-landing aircraft.

Two years after the EcoPulse hybrid-electric propulsion demo made its public debut at the Paris Air Show, some of the firms involved have formed a consortium.

French startup Aura Aero has received $200 million in financing from the state of Florida to build out a 500,000-ft.2 assembly plant.

Swiss startup H55 has been touring the U.S. with the Bristell B23 Energic.

In partnership with Air New Zealand, Beta Technologies has announced its ‘Energy By the Hour’ (EBH) program at the Paris Air Show.

French startup VoltAero finalized an agreement with Malaysia’s HM Aerospace at the Paris Air Show for 30 Cassio 330 hybrid eVTOLs.

Startup AAM operator Future Flight Global (FFG) signed a pair of agreements at the Paris Air Show aimed at building out its future air taxi business.

Leaders from Joby Aviation, Archer, BETA Technologies and Wisk joined a panel at the Paris Air Show to discuss Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) manufacturing strategy and how the U.S. market could maintain its position as a leader in the budding industry.

U.S. FBO company Signature Aviation and Italian vertiport startup UrbanV have partnered to explore the development of a network of vertiports across the U.S.