Advanced Air Mobility

A group of European aviation and mobility organizations have joined forces to jointly pave the way for the introduction of electric regional aviation.

Startup Ampaire has received a U.S. Air Force contract to scale up its AMP-H570 hybrid-electric powertrain.

The biggest loser was Surf Air Mobility, which dropped 17.2% to $1.35.

The custom battery cell selected by the unidentified aircraft developer has an energy density of 400 Wh/kg.

Wisk Aero has begun conducting test flights of its autonomous air taxi out of Long Beach Airport, California.

LuftCar has received a term sheet worth up to $100 million from GEM Investment Group.

Thales’ drone division in Singapore has developed the ScaleFlyt Remote ID "transponder" for drones.

Rhode Island-based electric seaglider startup Regent has announced the completion of a $60 million Series A funding round.

Austrian startup CycloTech has unveiled a design concept for an “air car.”

Supernal is working to develop electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicles.

Sikorsky plans in 2024 to demonstrate an uncrewed UH-60 helicopter autonomously responding to a wildfire.

Personal air mobility startup Jetson has announced the successful completion of a $15 million seed round.

The UK is moving toward an outcomes-based approach in regulating remotely piloted aircraft systems and the advanced air mobility sector.

U.S. startup Pyka’s Pelican Cargo autonomous electric heavy-payload aircraft has flown in the UK for the first time.

Deutsche Aircraft has completed wind tunnel testing of the 328Alpha hydrogen-electric powertrain flight demonstrator.

Joby Aviation has begun flying its S4 tiltprop electric-vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) aircraft with a pilot on board.

Reliable Robotics has completed a study for the USAF examining retrofitting the service’s large multi-engine jets with its autonomous flight control tech.

Australia’s V-Star Powered Lift Aviation and radiopharmaceutical supplier Cyclotek have signed an agreement to trial the use of long-range uncrewed aircraft to deliver time-sensitive medical tracers to regional imaging centers.

Insurance is vital for any business to obtain, but convincing an insurer to take a risk on an unprecedented product may be trickier than inventing new tech.

A German startup is aiming to prove that low-cost regional airlines can be disruptors.

The rules, regulations and parameters within which vertiports will operate are all works in progress.

Canadian air taxi startup Horizon Air recently announced a design change from five to seven seats for its hybrid-electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft.

German aerospace center DLR has taken delivery of a Dornier 328-100 modified by Deutsche Aircraft to be a flying testbed for sustainable aviation technologies.

An autonomous electric cargo transport ground vehicle is to be tested at the UK’s East Midlands Airport.

With cross-border flights by electric aircraft a rarity, Beta says the Alia flight was the first by a fully electric aircraft into Montreal.