Air taxis and personal transports

HENSOLDT integrates its avionics suite in ePlane’s e200X electric air taxi

India’s ePlane Company (Ubifly Technologies) has placed a firm order with HENSOLDT for its flagship “e200X”. HENSOLDT supplies what ePlane describes as the “digital nervous system” of the e200X. An avionics suite for navigation, situational […]

AAM/UAM route and programme news

Electra, Helsinki City and Haaga-Helia University plan route network for Ultra Short electric aircraft services

Electra has announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the City of Helsinki and Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences to explore how Direct Aviation can enable faster, quieter, and more efficient regional […]

Fixed wing low/zero emissions

Wings Capital and Blue Skies Aviation order ten MD Aircraft eViator electric airliners

Wings Capital Management LLC (United Arab Emirates) and Blue Skies Aviation Solutions (Pvt) Ltd (Sri Lanka) have signed a pre-order agreement with MD Aircraft GmbH to secure production slots for ten all-electric MDA1 eViator aircraft. […]

Air taxis and personal transports

Wisk Aero starts work on modular vertiport at Hollister Municipal Airport, California

Wisk Aero today announced the groundbreaking of a new state-of-the-art vertiport at Hollister Municipal Airport in California. “The facility is one of the first public airport vertiports designed to support both piloted and autonomous operations […]

Cargo and logistics

Merlin receives design organisation approval to fast track autonomous cargo operations in New Zealand

Merlin, Inc. a flight control company developing commercial autonomous cargo operations in New Zealand, has received a Part 146 Aircraft Design Organization certificate from the Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand (CAANZ). This allows Merlin to internally approve […]

Air taxis and personal transports

NTU Singapore team completes eVTOL prototype flight test campaign with DLR

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) reports it has completed a month-long flight-test campaign in Germany with Singapore’s first indigenously designed, engineered and built electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. Working with flight-test experts from […]