Advanced Air Mobility

French personal air mobility startup Zapata announced plans to open its first flight center in Las Vegas early next year, offering paying customers the chance to fly the hybrid VTOL Air Scooter.

China’s regulatory framework for ultralights has long been established under Chapter O of CCAR-91, mirroring FAA Part 103.

Technologies for air mobility and airships are among a new wave of research projects to be funded by the Canadian government under a program to support decarbonization of the aerospace sector.

When Dronamics was founded 11 years ago, the Bulgarian startup took a contrarian view to the emerging commercial drone market.

SkyGrid has signed anagreement with MIT Lincoln Laboratory to jointly research and develop high-resolution forecast models for low-altitude flying aircraft.

Aside from a small handful of startups, the boom in advanced air mobility shows signs of going bust.

London’s Metropolitan Police service has launched a pilot drone service to see if the technology can help them respond more quickly to emergency calls.

U.S. eVTOL air taxi startups Archer and Joby are flying their aircraft in the UAE, ahead of plans to launch commercial services there as soon as next year. Industry stakeholders, regulators, investors and members of the public are invited to this Aviation Week Network webinar to examine the companies' strategy, vision and objectives for their UAE initiative, and what to expect for their eventual launches in the U.S.

Regional aircraft lessor TrueNoord is focusing on new aircraft technologies, forming a partnership with electric aircraft specialist Elysian.

The rising popularity of Collaborative Combat Aircraft has spread to the U.S. Army, which is now considering the reusable systems to augment crewed rotorcraft.

Seneca, a startup developing firefighting drones, raised a $60 million venture capital round to increase production of UAVs.

The seventh China (Tianjin) International Helicopter Exposition had 52 aircraft on display, including new uncrewed eVTOL designs.

China is looking to replicate its dominance in the global electric vehicle and commercial drone markets with the nascent eVTOL industry.

Japanese startup SkyDrive has completed public flights of its SD-05 prototype eVTOL.

The Chinese eVTOL industry is robust.

For the first time since its acquisition by Joby, Blade returned to NBAA-BACE 2025 to offer air shuttle rides between the convention center and Henderson Executive Airport.

Korean Air has announced the selection of Archer Aviation as its exclusive eVTOL air taxi partner in Korea.

Textron has eliminated its Textron eAviation innovation-focused subsidiary in a corporate reorganization.

Personal eVTOL maker Jetson made news in September when it delivered its first one-seater recreational aircraft to Anduril founder and CEO Palmer Luckey.

Taiwan will spend NT$44.2 billion ($1.4 billion) to scale up manufacturing of uncrewed aircraft systems and become an Asia-Pacific drone production hub by 2030.

Archer Aviation expects to start FAA certification flight-testing of the four-passenger battery-electric Midnight air taxi next year.

A Beta Technologies electric aircraft on short-term lease to Air New Zealand has been delivered and has conducted its first flights in New Zealand.

U.S. electric aircraft startup Beta Technologies has priced its planned initial public offering at $27-33 per share, for gross proceeds of $675-825 million.

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.

Air taxi developer Archer Aviation announced it has won a competitive bid process to acquire the patents of insolvent electric aircraft manufacturer Lilium.