Advanced Air Mobility

The goal is to launch pilot programs on routes in unpopulated areas with 25 preproduction aircraft in 2025.

Swiss electric propulsion startup H55 has announced the closing of a Series C funding round.

Sigma has signed agreements with eVTOL developer Supernal and VoltAero.

CEO Klaus Roewe says the shift of the Lilium Jet’s first flight into early 2025 is linked to some key suppliers missing out on EASA software validation requirements.

P&WC is working with Maeve on a propulsion system for the European startup's planned hybrid-electric regional turboprop for the 80-seat-class market.

Jens Flottau speaks with Lilium CEO Klaus Roewe to learn more about the jet's production, delays in the planned first flight, and the 100-aircraft Saudia order.

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has agreed to perform a flight demonstration of ZeroAvia’s ZA2000 hydrogen-electric engines in 2026.

The new prototype is by far Vertical’s most advanced yet.

China’s EHang has signed a purchase and operation cooperation agreement with Hong Kong’s KC Smart Mobility.

“We hope to power their ZEROe,” ZeroAvia founder and CEO Val Miftakhov said on the first day of this year's Farnborough Airshow.

By 2040, Aviation Week’s projections call for nearly 12,000 eVTOL deliveries worldwide.

Electric vehicle makers are more concerned with battery energy capacity rather than power capability.

A GKN Aerospace-led project to develop and test a 2-megawatt cryogenic hybrid-electric propulsion system is one of five to be backed by UK government funding.

The AAM Stock Composite plunged more than 12% during the week ending July 19, dragged lower by EHang.

Pratt says the engine developed for the company’s Hybrid-Electric Propulsion (HEP) flight demonstrator has run at full power for the first time.

Wisk Aero says it is giving consideration toward the fledgling aftermarket for its fully automated electric aircraft, although some of the MRO opportunity will be constrained by its intentional design limiting the aircraft’s number of systems.

Aviation Week Network's Guy Norris and Jens Flottau, discuss what to expect for AAM at Farnborough International Airshow 2024.

Wisk Aero has partnered with Skyports Infrastructure to develop a vertiport network for commercial air taxi services in Southeast Queensland, Australia.

From uncrewed vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft to heavy-lift tiltwings, Sikorsky’s family of systems shares common components.

Jekta has selected ZeroAvia to develop a hydrogen-electric, fuel-cell-powered version of its PHA-ZE 100 amphibian, originally designed to rely on batteries.

Collins Aerospace has passed the passed the preliminary design review for the EU's Clean Aviation HECATE project.

RTX companies Collins Aerospace and Pratt & Whitney have achieved sustained turbogenerator operation in its STEP-Tech demonstrator, marking a key milestone.

Lilium's expanded Power-On Aftermarket Services portfolio now offers a suite of digital tools to support future operators of its eVTOL aircraft.

Eve Air Mobility, Embraer’s advanced air mobility spinoff, has rolled out the first of six Eve prototypes to support the eVTOL program through developmental flight testing.

Whisper Aero has unveiled a prototype glider powered by its largest electric ducted-fan thruster to date.