Air taxis and personal transports

ZeroAvia to provide 600kW electric motors to Jetcruzer International for flight testing

ZeroAvia today announced that it agreed a deal for the first sale of its 600kW electric propulsion system (EPS) to Jetcruzer International for electric flight testing to hone the design of its Jetcruzer 500E. Delivery of the development […]

Air taxis and personal transports

Volocopter partners with Jet Systems Hélicoptères Service to offer eVTOL services in Paris

Volocopter has announced a new partnership with Jet Systems Hélicoptères Services, a licensed air service offering with over thirty years of passenger flight services, announced that they had signed an agreement to bring electric vertical […]

Research

China’s first privately-funded low altitude aircraft test centre under development in Chongzhou

Chinese state news agency Xinhua said in a February 17 news report that the country’s first privately-funded next-generation aircraft test facility has begun construction in Chongzhou, Sichuan Province. The site is due to be completed […]

New city projects

Tokyo outlines detailed plans for eVTOL services, first demonstration flights “next year”

According to Tokyo Metropolitan Government Office of the Governor for Policy Planning “the Metropolitan Government has established the “Tokyo Metropolitan Government-Private Council for the Realization of a Revolution in Air Mobility,” which will be the […]

UAM infrastructure

“1,504 vertiports now planned for construction worldwide” – latest Global AAM/UAM Market Map report

The February 2025 update to the Global AAM/UAM Market Map report:  The global vertiport market map and forecast 2025-2029 has identified 1,504 vertiports being planned for development around the world, or implicit in the network launch […]

Vertiports

Skyway and DART to develop vertiport network feasibility study in California

Skyway, a California-based vertiport development and operations company, has partnered y with the Drones, Automation & Robotics Technology (DART) organization to accelerate advanced air mobility (AAM) solutions throughout California. “This partnership with DART, established in […]

Government investment

India’s civil aviation ministry and the WEF examine potential AAM hubs in Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh

India’s Ministry of Civil Aviation, in collaboration with the World Economic Forum’s Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (C4IR) India, during January 2025 conducted field studies across Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh in January 2025 aimed […]