Urban Air Mobility News & Articles

Urban Air Mobility Innovation Challenge Winners Announced

Advanced Technology International (ATI), TechConnect and The Vertical Lift Consortium (VLC) have announced the five winners of the 2022 Urban...

Oct 04, 2022
EHang Provides EH216-S eVTOL Type Certification Progress Update

EHang has provided an update on its passenger-grade autonomous aerial vehicle (AAV) EH216-S Type Certification process. The Project Specific Certification...

Oct 03, 2022
UMILES Next’s eVTOL Air Taxi Prototype Completes European Flight Tests

UMILES Next’s Concept Integrity air taxi, equipped with TECNALIA’s FlyFree technology, has completed successful test flights in Toulouse, taking off...

Sep 29, 2022
SkyDrive and Volatus Partner to Accelerate AAM in Japan and US

SkyDrive and Volatus have announced a strategic alliance and will work together to support business development and market expansion of...

Sep 28, 2022
Vertical Aerospace Completes First Airborne Test of VX4 eVTOL Aircraft

Vertical Aerospace has completed the first airborne test of its VX4 electrical vertical take-off and landing aircraft. It is believed...

Sep 28, 2022
BLADE, Eve Partnership to Expand Urban Air Mobility Ecosystem in India

A new strategic partnership between Flyblade India (BLADE India) and Eve Air Mobility aims to expand the UAM ecosystem in...

Sep 27, 2022
LuftCar to Develop Hydrogen Fuel Cell Battery Hybrid Propulsion System for AAM Market

LuftCar has announced plans to develop a new hydrogen fuel cell – battery hybrid propulsion system for the eVTOL market....

Sep 26, 2022
SkyDrive Unveils Two-Seat SD-05 Compact eVTOL Aircraft 

eVTOL aircraft developer SkyDrive Inc. has unveiled the design of its commercial model eVTOL — the SkyDrive SD-05. The SD-05...

Sep 26, 2022
Airbus Extends Collaboration with Ecocopter for UAM services in Latin America

Airbus and Ecocopter have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to start collaborating on the launch of urban air mobility services...

Sep 23, 2022
Boeing and Wisk Release Urban Air Mobility Concept of Operations

Boeing and its joint venture partner Wisk have released a roadmap for transitioning to a future where automated and uncrewed...

Sep 22, 2022
Flight Tests Demonstrate Coordination between ATM and U-space for UAM Cargo Traffic

As part of the SESAR project CORUS-XUAM, a very large-scale demonstration, lead by ENAV with support from D-Flight, Pipistrel, Techno...

Sep 22, 2022
New Aerospace Research Center to Drive Drone and UAM Innovation in Finland

A new aerospace research center has started operations in Finland, which brings together businesses from the private, public and R&D...

Sep 22, 2022
Sojitz Invests in BETA Technologies to Build Advanced Air Mobility Market in Japan

Sojitz Corporation will invest in U.S.-based eVTOL aircraft developer BETA Technologies Inc., to form a collaboration with the aim of...

Sep 20, 2022
EVfly to Purchase Three Axe eVTOL Aircraft from Skyfly

Fleet management and air mobility company EVfly has signed a Letter of Intent and will pay deposits for three Axe...

Sep 15, 2022
MORAI Launches Simulation Platform for UAM Aircraft

MORAI, a developer of full-stack autonomous vehicle simulation technology in Korea, has launched MORAI SIM Air, a new simulation platform...

Sep 14, 2022
United Invests Further $15 Million in Eve Air Mobility

United has announced a $15 million investment in Eve Air Mobility and a conditional purchase agreement for 200 four-seat electric...

Sep 09, 2022
Doroni Aerospace Launches H1 eVTOL Pre-orders

Doroni Aerospace, Inc. has announced the launch of pre-orders for the Doroni H1 personal eVTOL (electric vertical takeoff and landing...

Sep 08, 2022
Eve to Conduct North American Urban Air Mobility Simulation in Chicago

eVTOL developer Eve will conduct its first North American UAM simulation using helicopters powered by Blade Air Mobility, Inc. as...

Sep 08, 2022
Airbus Partners with Hiratagakuen to Test Future eVTOL Flight Routes and Concept of Operations

Airbus is partnering with Japanese helicopter operator Hiratagakuen to develop advanced air mobility services in the Kansai region and beyond....

Sep 08, 2022