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By Carole Rickard Hedden
Aviation Week’s Advanced Air Mobility Report to date has covered the projects and companies that are staking ground in a market that they, themselves, are creating.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Universe of customers for eVTOL aircraft expands, with Europcar Brazil plans to order 50 eGyros from startup Skyworks Aeronautics.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Michael Bruno
SPAC Zanite Acquisitio is bringing on a controversial Trump administration defense secretary to its board.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Michael Bruno
U.S. private equity firm AE Industrial Partners is rolling up UAV-related businesses under the UAV Factory brand.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Israel’s Urban Aeronautics has secured an initial $10 million of the at least $100 million it needs to raise through a Series A funding round to support development of the CityHawk vertical-takeoff air taxi.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Molly McMillin
Jet Luxe has launched a new charter, management and travel services business to respond to record levels of demand for the services.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Shareholders in Atlas Crest Investment approved the blank-check company’s reverse merger with urban air mobility startup Archer Aviation in a Sept. 14 vote.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Terrafugia, owned by Chinese automaker Geely, has launched first product Commaris, and Seeker UAS for commercial inspection operations.
Advanced Air Mobility

Staff reports
Iris Automation continues its string of dealmaking, signing on as a partner with Australia’s Swoop Aero to offer beyond-visual-line-of-sight systems on the global advanced air mobility market.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Lindsay Bjerregaard, Graham Warwick
Startup Mobius Energy plans to deliver its first electric-propulsion battery module to a customer in October.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick, Michael Bruno
Regional air mobility startup Lilium will become a publicly traded company Sept. 15, with less cash in hand than was hoped for.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Michael Bruno
High-profile electric air taxi startup Lilium will become a publicly traded company Sept. 15 when its Class A ordinary shares and redeemable warrants will be listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the ticker symbols “LILM” and “LILMW” respectively.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
On-demand helicopter service provider Blade Air Mobility is to acquire organ transport company Trinity Air Medical.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
The cargo market proves tempting to eVTOL developers targeting urban air mobility.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Daniel Williams
With September, Aviation Week Network swings into its forecast production season for various market sectors of the aerospace industry.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Archer is heading into a shareholder vote on its going-public merger armed with FAA approval of the certification basis for its electric aircraft, but facing a court battle against its air taxi rival Wisk.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
U.S. startup Electra.aero has formed a strategic partnership with Melbourne-based infrastructure company Skyportz to develop urban and regional passenger and cargo transport in Australia using hybrid-electric ultra-short-takeoff-and-landing aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
Turkey’s Baykar Makina has handed over the first Akinci medium-altitude, long-endurance uncrewed air systems to the Turkish Armed Forces.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Ben Goldstein
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, air carriers are chasing a smaller pool of travelers, putting small-community air service at risk just as it was in the years following 9/11.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Alphabet drone delivery company Wing is close to passing the milestone of 100,000 commercial deliveries, more than half of them in the last eight months in Logan, a city of 300,000 people south of Brisbane in Queensland, Australia.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
EHang is accelerating its initiative to identify urban air mobility routes as the Chinese startup transitions to being an operator of its electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing autonomous air taxis.
Advanced Air Mobility

Aviation Week Staff
Honeywell is continuing its push into the advanced air mobility market with the selection of its small satellite communications system to provide beyond-visual-line-of-sight connectivity for Pipistrel’s Nuuva family of hybrid-electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing unmanned cargo aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Embraer company Eve Urban Air Mobility is expanding its list of customers well ahead of entering the market with an electric vertical takeoff-and-landing air taxi.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
New Zealand regional airline Sounds Air has confirmed its launch orders with Swedish startup Heart Aerospace for an initial three ES-19 electric 19-passenger aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Founded 18 years ago, Israel’s Urban Aeronautics has a new CEO and a renewed commitment to its namesake market.
Advanced Air Mobility