Vertiports & Infrastructure News & Articles

Volatus Infrastructure Joins NATA AAM Committee

Volatus' Grant Fisk to participate in NATA AAM, its newest committee providing stakeholder input on the path forward for FBOs and airports planning to service the next generation of aircraft and address sustainable infrastructure

Apr 13, 2023
Kookiejar Partners with AirQual for Emergency Dispatch in Vertiports

Airqual, together with Kookiejar, will develop the emergency and dispatching system for the Vertiport Operations Centre, with a first demonstrator due to be presented during the Dubai Airshow, November 2023

Apr 12, 2023
Volocopter Unveils New Hangar for Final Assembly & Flight Tests

Volocopter's production facilities have the capacity, and regulatory approval, to assemble more than 50 VoloCity aircraft each year, and this is the final step of production setup that the company has been expanding in Bruchsal

Apr 05, 2023
Advanced Air Mobility International Most Read Articles in March 2023

March 2023 saw a significant number of developments in the Advanced Air Mobility industry including record breaking eVTOL flights, new funding and plans to launch air taxi routes

Apr 05, 2023
Lilium & Customcells Increase Battery Cell Production for eVTOL Aircraft

This agreement represents an important step for Lilium towards final assembly of its type-conforming aircraft due to begin later this year, as agreements are already in place for aerostructures, avionics, and propulsion systems, among many others

Apr 03, 2023
Advanced Air Mobility Weekly Roundup – WC 26 March

A roundup of the week's Advanced Air Mobility news, including developments from Dufour, Jetson, and Archer

Mar 31, 2023
UK CAA Issues First eVTOL DOA to Vertical Aerospace

The Design Organization Approval (DOA) means the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) is satisfied Vertical Aerospace has the capability to design a safe and reliable aircraft and aviation-related products to the highest standards

Mar 31, 2023
Altaport’s New Partnerships for Vertiport Automation

Altaport has signed strategic partnership agreements with TruWeather, Electro.Aero, Fortem, 1200.aero, ResilienX and Moonware to provide a comprehensive vertiport management solution

Mar 29, 2023
Jetson Welcomes Diamandis as Senior Advisor

Founder of over 25 companies in health-tech, space, venture capital and education, Peter Diamandis joins Jetson, and will use his experience in cutting-edge technologies to help Jetson make strides in sustainability and air transportation

Mar 28, 2023
Advanced Air Mobility Weekly Roundup – WC 19 March

A roundup of the week's Advanced Air Mobility news, including developments from Archer, Eve Air Mobility, and Doroni Aerospace

Mar 24, 2023
United & Archer to Launch First Air Taxi Route in Chicago

From Vertiport Chicago, located in the Illinois Medical District, passengers will be able to travel to and from O'Hare International Airport (ORD) via Archer's Midnight aircraft in around 10 minutes

Mar 23, 2023
Collaboration Formed to Explore Use of Eve’s Urban ATM Software

Eve Air Mobility and Ferrovial have signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) for a collaboration that will help enable safe and reliable eVTOL operations in the US and UK

Mar 23, 2023
Terminals Holding & Kookiejar Collaborate on Vertiports

The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), signed during the The Future of Air Transportation in Mauritania conference in Nouakchott, will see cooperation in building and operating transformational, sustainable vertiports in emerging markets, creating societal value

Mar 21, 2023
VPorts to Build First Vertiport at Ras Al Khaimah Airport in UAE

The Ras Al Khaimah (RAK) vertiport, to be established on a 10,000-square-meter site, is designed to establish the UAE as a world class global Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) hub

Mar 20, 2023
SITA & Volocopter Collaborate on Digital Infrastructure for Vertiports

SITA has been selected as Volocopter's preferred digital and IT systems partner for vertiports, and becomes the latest investor to join the Series E funding round

Mar 20, 2023
Advanced Air Mobility Weekly Roundup – WC 12 March

A roundup of the week's Advanced Air Mobility news, including developments from Vertical Aerospace, Joby, and Archer

Mar 17, 2023
NASA AAM Team Flight Tests in Joby’s eVTOL Simulator

In total, four NASA research pilots flew the Joby simulator, which includes joystick controls, avionics, and performance modeling that duplicate the feeling of flying Joby's S4 air taxi

Mar 16, 2023
SkyDrive and VPorts Collaborate to Promote AAM Industry from Dubai

The two companies will collaborate on the technical and business aspect to leverage the AAM Integrator World Center in Dubai for business development and market expansion

Mar 15, 2023
Sikorsky and GE Collaborate on Fully-Autonomous eVTOL Prototype

The HEX program could lead to a family of eVTOL vehicles scaled to carry passengers and payload for both military and commercial applications

Mar 14, 2023