Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
China’s electric first; Europe’s regional certification; Dutch LH2 demo; and South Korean eVTOL.
Emerging Technologies

By Angus Batey
Company staff explained details of progress on aircraft design and build, battery development and flight testing, as work continues to certify the platform.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
BAE Systems plans to provide the energy storage system for an Airbus project to demonstrate microhybridization for commercial aircraft.
Emerging Technologies

By Ben Goldstein
The divergence between the prospects of eVTOL startups in Europe and the U.S. is growing starker by the week.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Lindsay Bjerregaard
FEAM’s new partnership with UrbanLink Air Mobility follows similar partnerships established with other advanced air mobility companies in 2024.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Ben Goldstein
Dubbed the Dubai International Vertiport (DVX), the facility is to be the first of a planned network of four vertiports that Skyports will build and operate.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Flight testing of a hybrid-electric powertrain on an ATR 72 demonstrator has been included in the third call for proposals for Clean Aviation.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
The licensing initiative comes after ARC announced late last year that it plans to sell off the C600 program.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
The Daegu-based company has released video showing an uncrewed tethered hover test of a full-scale prototype of the two-seat HAM-III-2 in December.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Adrian Schofield
Air New Zealand has reached a sale-leaseback agreement with lessor Avolon for the airline’s first electric aircraft order.
Airlines & Lessors

By Ben Goldstein
A subsidiary of Chinese automaker XPeng, Aero HT’s Land Aircraft Carrier features a six-propeller electric multicopter.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Garrett Reim
The companies will also work together to develop large-area displays for next-generation cockpits with thinner, higher resolution screens.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Vertical said on Jan. 8 that it has completed an initial series of piloted, low-speed thrust-borne flight maneuvers.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Jens Flottau, Ben Goldstein
Air taxi startups in Europe are in big trouble, calling into question the region’s future position in the growing advanced air mobility industry.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Bill Carey
Atlantic Aviation has acquired Ferrovial Vertiports from Spanish infrastructure developer Ferrovial for an undisclosed price.
Airports, FBOs & Suppliers

By Ben Goldstein
Perhaps the biggest elephant in the room: airspace integration of large numbers of AAM aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

Aviation Week Staff
Beta Technologies expanded its electric aircraft charging network in 2024.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Inflync launched a pre-Series A round to fund construction of a full-scale prototype of its planned L600 Pioneer ducted-fan tiltwing hybrid-electric air taxi.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
TransFuture Aviation saw the first public demo flight of its Honghu Mark1 engineering prototype, and Blue Space Aviation flew its Yunfan-2 eVTOL demonstrator.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Royal NLR plans to convert its Velis Electro battery-powered research aircraft for crewed flight testing of fuel-cell propulsion using liquid hydrogen.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
The Liaoning General Aviation Academy's electric RX4E has received Chinese type certification to the equivalent of the FAA’s Part 23 airworthiness regulations.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Archer finished 2024 at $9.75, up 59% from its 2023 result of $6.14, boosted by a better than 200% share price surge that began in November.
Advanced Air Mobility

Swaati Ketkar
The partnership aims to revolutionize air travel in India by introducing seven-seat electric flying taxis.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Jens Flottau
The group of investors seeking to take over electric aircraft manufacturer Lilium plans to invest more than €200 million into the insolvent company.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
EHang, meanwhile, continues to expand on its leading position on China’s emerging low-altitude economy.
Advanced Air Mobility