AAM_Business

By Graham Warwick
Vertical Aerospace and Babcock International are exploring application of the VX4 electric vertical takeoff and landing air taxi to emergency medical services and cargo transportation.
Farnborough Airshow

By Graham Warwick
Does the luxury lifestyle market have a role to play in advanced air mobility? Perhaps, based on two new agreements, although the companies involved are far from leaders in the nascent industry.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Angus Batey
German start-up carrier Evia Aero has signed a letter of intent with Cranfield Aerospace Solutions (CAeS) to buy 10 conversion kits that will enable nine-seat Britten Norman Islander aircraft to fly regional routes in northern Europe on hydrogen.
Airlines & Lessors

By Graham Warwick
The airline has committed to pre-delivery payments for its first 50 Vertical Aerospace VX4 air taxis.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Boston-based autonomous flight startup Merlin Labs has completed a $105 million Series B round, bringing the total funding raised so far to $130 million.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Carole Rickard Hedden
The UK, with orders for 650 advanced air mobility vehicles, leads the emerging AAM market in Europe in terms of aircraft ordered.
Advanced Air Mobility

Global commercial helicopter operator Bristow Group has signed a letter of intent with Elroy Air to order up to 100 Chaparral hybrid-electric vertical takeoff and landing uncrewed cargo aircraft for logistics, health care and energy markets.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Chen Chuanren
Volocopter plans to launch commercial air taxi services in Singapore by 2024.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Carole Rickard Hedden
The overall AAM Stock Composite stopped the declines of the past three weeks, finishing with a right at 1% increase for the five-day period ending July 11 compared to the week prior.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Iris Automation and Sagetech Avionics have partnered to bring cooperative and noncooperative traffic detection and collision avoidance capabilities to drones operating beyond visual line of sight.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
UK electric propulsion startup Evolito has acquired battery developer Electroflight, expanding its business to encompass motors, controllers and energy storage systems.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Another startup has emerged onto China’s increasingly crowded electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicle market.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
A collaboration between startups Otto Aviation and ZeroAvia could lead to one of the first clean-sheet aircraft with hydrogen-electric propulsion.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
EHang has secured an RMB 1 billion ($149 million) credit facility from a Chinese bank to support its operations.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Guardian Agriculture, a U.S. startup developing an autonomous crop protection aircraft, has secured a multimillion-dollar partnership with Wilbur-Ellis, a manufacturer of agriculture products and chemicals.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Australian regional airline Skytrans has partnered with local startup Stralis Aircraft to convert a 19-seat Beech 1900D turboprop to hydrogen-electric propulsion for flight trials in 2025.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
China’s Duofo Group has acquired Italian ultralight helicopter manufacturer Fama Helicopters with the goal of expanding into uncrewed aircraft and electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Carole Rickard Hedden
Advanced air mobility publicly held companies are staying the course for a startup industry—a roller coaster that saw the average price increase by 15.8% a week ago and then fall by 19.8% this week.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Spanish unmanned-aircraft manufacturer Umiles has unveiled a concept prototype of an electric air-taxi and its design for a piloted two-passenger production aircraft, the Integrity3. A single-seat design, but remotely piloted, the prototype is planned to fly mid-year.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
The companies are working together to develop the Kaman K-Max Titan heavy-lift and Kargo medium-lift autonomous logistics aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
The advanced-air-mobility supply base is widening, with Airbus selecting automotive industry players KLK Motorsport and M&F Gerg to design and produce the rear fuselage of the CityAirbus NextGen electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing air taxi.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Tokyo-based startup Tetra Aviation has secured ¥450 million yen ($3.3 million) to continue development of its Mk-5 personal electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Regional carrier Mokulele Airlines has been named the launch partner in Hawaii for Regent’s 12-passenger Viceroy seaglider, an electric wing-in-ground-effect transport for dock-to-dock overwater routes.
Airlines & Lessors

By Graham Warwick
The uncrewed aircraft division of Kenya Airways, Fahari Aviation, has signed a letter of intent with Embraer spinoff Eve for up to 40 electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Netherlands’ electric aircraft startup Venturi Aviation has closed a €3.4 million ($3.6 million) funding round and unveiled a new name, Maeve Aerospace.
Advanced Air Mobility