Air taxis and personal transports

EHang announces order for 50 EH216-S eVTOLs from Guizhou tourist agency and partnership with Anshun City

EHang has announced a purchase order for 50 units of its EH216-S pilotless eVTOL aircraft from Guizhou Scenic Tourism Development Co., Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Guizhou Tourism Group. “These aircraft are planned to be […]

AAM/UAM route and programme news

Aerosolutions, Bluenest by Globalvia to buy 50 eVTOLs to launch AAM operations in Costa Rica

Eve Air Mobility has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Aerosolutions, which is developing an eVTOL operator called Aeros Electric Airlines, and Bluenest by Globalvia, Globalvia’s Advanced Air Mobility infrastructure developer and vertiport operator, […]

Air taxis and personal transports

FCourier’s Matrix 1 two-tonne eVTOL “expected to be CAAC certified by end of 2025”

China’s first domestically developed two tonne electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft (eVTOL), the Matrix 1, developed by Zhongshan FCourier Aviation Technology Co, is expected to obtain airworthiness certification from the Civil Aviation Administration of […]

Air taxis and personal transports

New York helicopter charter operator FlyNYON buys “up to five Beta Alia eVTOLs”

Beta Technologies has announced that helicopter tour operator FlyNYON has committed to buy up to five of its Alia eVTOL aircraft. FlyNYON conducts charter and photo tourism flights around New York City. FlyNYON’s current fleet comprises […]

Emerging regulations

UAE’s GCAA “publishes updated regulatory framework for certifying vertiports and heliports”

The UAE General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) has published CAR AGA PART VFI (Vertical Flight Infrastructures) “a comprehensive regulatory framework that modernises and replaces the former CAR HVD (the world’s first vertiport regulation),” according to […]

Air taxis and personal transports

FAA researchers simulate integrating Joby eVTOL flights into LAX commercial operations

US Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Airport Facilities Terminal Integration Laboratory (AFTIL) researchers in New Jersey have been modelling how Joby eVTOLs will be integrated into commercial traffic at Los Angeles International Airport  (LAX), reports Joby. “The […]