Air taxis and personal transports

Safran to supply electrical wiring system to VoltAero’s Cassio 330 electric-hybrid aircraft

Safran Electrical & Power has been selected to supply the electrical wiring on VoltAero’s Cassio 330 electric-hybrid certification aircraft. “With this contract, Safran Electrical & Power will design and produce electrical wiring for the propulsion […]

Air taxis and personal transports

Hawaiʻi Seaglider Initiative will link island communities via all-electric seaplane services

The Hawaiʻi Seaglider Initiative (HSI) has launched with a broad coalition committed to delivering affordable and accessible transportation option to Hawaiʻi communities. Seagliders are all-electric, zero-emission vessels that would operate exclusively over water at speeds […]

UAM infrastructure

Atlantic Aviation and BETA Technologies partner to bring electric chargers to Atlantic bases

Atlantic Aviation, a fixed-base operator (FBO) and aviation services provider, and BETA Technologies, Inc. (BETA), an electric aerospace company, are collaborating to install BETA’s electric charging stations at several of Atlantic’s airport locations across the […]

Air taxis and personal transports

Sirius to unveil “world’s first hydrogen-powered VTOL aircraft on January 17”

Swiss aviation startup Sirius Aviation AG reports it will unveil its Sirius Jet – “the world’s first hydrogen-powered Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) aircraft; crafted and designed in collaboration with BMW’s Designworks and Sauber Group.” […]

Emerging regulations

EUROCAE publishes guidance material for EASA hybrid electric propulsion compliance

European standards body EUROCAE has published the WG-113 Hybrid Electric Propulsion working group’s guidance material for means of compliance for EASA’s SC E-19 EHPS.420 demonstration. According to a Linkedin post: “Based on new publication of SC-EHPS, […]

Air taxis and personal transports

Lilium and Fraport partner to provide eVTOL infrastructure at airports

Airport operator Fraport and Lilium N.V. have announced their strategic collaboration to explore required planning and approval steps for state-of-the-art infrastructure for the implementation of commercial eVTOL operations at airports. Fraport is active at 30 […]