Air taxis and personal transports

SkyDrive announces JPY 8.3 billion in funding as it prepares for ground and flight tests

SkyDrive Inc has raised JPY 8.3 billion in pre-series D funding through a third-party allotment. The funding will be used to strengthen the company’s eVTOL development team, enhance testing infrastructure, improve operational readiness and accelerate […]

Air taxis and personal transports

UK’s Skyfly Axe “makes first European airfield-to-airfield flight of an eVTOL”

The UK’s Skyfly Technologies has announced the successful completion “of Europe’s first airfield-to-airfield flight of a fully electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft.” The flight was performed by Skyfly’s Chief Technical Officer and test […]

AAM/UAM route and programme news

EHang links with Reignwood for eVTOL services, infrastructure development in China and beyond

EHang has announced that it has entered into a strategic partnership agreement with Reignwood Aviation Group, a general aviation enterprise. According to a company press release: “the two parties will collaborate under China’s national strategy […]

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 […]