Advanced Air Mobility

Spirit AeroSystems is the market leader, according to the consultancy’s December report.

Eve Air Mobility has secured two lines of credit worth a combined $92.5 million from Brazil’s National Development Bank.

The grants were included as part of the Advanced Aviation Infrastructure Modernization Act.

Airport planners are coming under increasing pressure to onboard the infrastructure needed to enable planned eVTOL operations beginning in 2025.

Israeli startup AIR has completed the first successful transition of its full-scale technology prototype from hover to cruise.

A decade after U.S. Marine Corps experiments in Afghanistan, the Defense Department is ramping up development of cargo-carrying UAS.

Site approvals and first-article tests will be completed by the end of February 2023.

After a heady 2021, a layer of reality has settled over the advanced air mobility industry in the past year.

The ground tests are of the hybrid-electric propulsion system that will power the modified De Havilland Dash 8-100 flight demonstrator starting in 2024.

Proposed certification requirements for Archer Aviation’s M001 Midnight air taxi have been released by the FAA.

Dropped from 50 ft., the representative full-scale, 800-volt battery module absorbed the impact load with no significant damage at the cell or pack level.

Dante was founded in 2018 and regional airline Air Nostrum and low-cost carrier Volotea have together become the startup’s first strategic investor.

The increase was pushed higher by several large fundraising rounds at major AAM startups in recent weeks.

Despite the positive weekly result, the AAM Composite fell each day between Dec. 12 and Dec. 15.

Eve Co-CEO Andre Stein offered an update on the status of Eve’s namesake eVTOL.

French startup HyLight has flown an uncrewed airship with hydrogen fuel-cell propulsion provided by H3 Dynamics.

U.S. startup VerdeGo Aero is to test its hybrid-electric powerplant running on 100% sustainable aviation fuel.

India has the potential to be a major market for advanced air mobility.

Hybrid-electric Sikorsky; Air NZ picks zero-emission partners; Avio’s fuel-cell hybrid; and H2 for long-range drones.

Telesat of Ottawa has finished testing its Phase 1 low-Earth-orbit demonstration satellite.

Boston-based Advent, which bought Britain’s Cobham and Ultra Electronics in recent years, said Maxar is a high-quality known supplier of orbital assets.

Blade Air Mobility is wrangling to become the “Netflix of EVA” by adding electric vertical aircraft to its existing helicopter business.

Since 2018, the share of active legacy players in AAM has grown 10% each year.

Reliable Robotics has entered a partnership with ASL Aviation Holdings aimed at integrating autonomous technologies into air cargo services.

The 390 potential AAM routes in the UK are spread among 32 smaller and regional airports.