Air taxis and personal transports

NASA names 17 companies to participate in UAM Grand Challenge technology demonstrations

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has signed Space Act Agreements with 17 companies in the aviation industry to advance plans for the first in a series of technology demonstrations known as the Urban Air Mobility (UAM) […]

Air taxis and personal transports

Volocopter raises funding level EUR122 million as DB Schenker makes major investment

Volocopter and DB Schenker have today announced an investment by the global logistics service provider into Volocopter, extending its Series C funding to now total EUR87 million. Besides DB Schenker, Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Group, TransLink […]

Air taxis and personal transports

ASX and Spirit AeroSystems developing “affordable eVTOL aircraft for mass production”

Airspace Experience Technologies (ASX), an aviation technology start-up, and Spirit AeroSystems, a global aircraft design and manufacturing company, have signed a memorandum of understanding and a definitive agreement to cooperate on creation of affordable, certified […]

Air taxis and personal transports

Autonomous air taxi flight trials take off in New Zealand

The New Zealand Government has signed a memorandum of understanding with urban air mobility company Wisk (https://www.urbanairmobilitynews.com/air-taxis/boeing-and-kittyhawk-launch-wisk-company-to-develop-the-cora-air-taxi/) to support a transport trial of the company’s Cora air taxi in Canterbury, according to Research, Science and […]