UTM

The global UTM market: slow progress on UTM certification will impact eVTOL market evolution

Unmanned Airspace’s bi-annual review of the UTM market, The market for UAV Traffic Management Services – 2024-2028, September 2024 edition concludes the market for UTM systems and services will be worth USD1.8 billion between 2024 and 2028, and […]

Fixed wing low/zero emissions

Heart Aerospace unveils its X1 hybrid-electric regional airliner demonstrator

Heart Aerospace, the Swedish hybrid-electric aircraft manufacturer, today unveils its first full-scale demonstrator aircraft, the Heart X1.  Built almost entirely in-house at Heart’s Gothenburg facilities, “the demonstrator reflects the company’s strategy to simultaneously develop both […]

Fixed wing low/zero emissions

ZeroAvia announces new total of USD150 million of Series C funding

ZeroAvia today announced that it has extended its Series C financing to a total of USD150 million, with a UKP20 million investment from Scottish National Investment Bank coming alongside recent investments from American Airlines, International Airlines Group (IAG) and ITOCHU Corporation. […]

Air taxis and personal transports

“Lilium in line for federal and Bavaria state funding” – German finance press reports

Der Spiegel reports that Bavaria’s State Chancellery Chief Florian Herrmann announced on Tuesday that the Bavarian state cabinet had agreed on state aid for the company. “However, the company from Oberpfaffenhofen near Munch will only […]

Air taxis and personal transports

Vertical Aerospace reports latest VX4 prototype has completed first phase flight tests

Vertical Aerospace reports its latest VX4 has completed the first phase of its piloted flight test programme at the Vertical Flight Test Centre. During Phase one, the VX4 prototype conducted multiple piloted tethered flights and […]

Air taxis and personal transports

Brazil’s ANAC issues GO HOBBY an experimental flight certificate for the EH216

Multiple press sources report that Brazil’s National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC) on September 6 issued an experimental flight authorization for a Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS), for the purpose of research and development, to GO […]

Emerging regulations

Singapore and Brazil civil aviation authorities to harmonise regulatory approaches to AAM

The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) and National Civil Aviation Agency – Brazil (ANAC) have signed a Memorandum of Intent (MOI) on Advanced Air Mobility to strengthen collaboration on regulatory approaches, technical standards, and […]