Business Partnerships

Eve Air Mobility adds Garmin, Liebherr and Intergalactic to its eVTOL supplier list

Eve Air Mobility has named three new suppliers for its electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft.  Garmin® will supply the avionics for the aircraft while Liebherr-Aerospace will supply the flight controls actuators. Intergalactic will provide […]

Business Partnerships

Urban-Air Port joins forces with NACO – accelerating vertiport integration into airports globally

Netherlands Airport Consultants (NACO) today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Urban-Air Port® (UAP), making it the “first specialist aviation planning consultancy to support UAP in exploring how its pioneering ground infrastructure technology can […]

AAM/UAM route and programme news

EHang and partners “to develop eVTOL tourist eco-system for Pingtan Island”

EHang Intelligent Equipment (Guangzhou) Co., Ltd., Fujian Xinyun Technology Investment Co., Ltd. and the Experimental Zone Investment Promotion Committee have signed a low-altitude flight tourism project covering the resort island of Pingtan, according to China’s Baidu news […]

UAM infrastructure

NERL publishes FAA-sponsored study on vertiport electrical infrastructure requirements

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has released the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s (NREL) study on vertiport electrical infrastructure. The study’s executive summary says: “Determining the electric load demands associated with introducing these aircraft is […]

Air taxis and personal transports

EHang opens its European UAM Centre at Lleida-Alguaire airport in Spain

EHang Holdings Limited has announced the inauguration of its first European UAM Centre in Spain (see https://www.urbanairmobilitynews.com/air-taxis/ehang-to-inaugurate-first-european-autonomous-air-vehicle-operations-centre-on-31-october/). “Located inside the Lleida–Alguaire International Airport (“LEDA”), the centre represents the first-of-its-kind in Europe for unmanned electric vertical […]

Air taxis and personal transports

SkyDrive to produce up to 100 eVTOLs a year at partner Suzuki’s manufacturing plant

SkyDrive, a Japanese eVTOL aircraft manufacturer, has announced continuing progress of the Suzuki Motor Corporation and SkyDrive strategic partnership since the collaboration agreement on the sharing of business and technology in March 2022 which was […]