Air taxis and personal transports

Electric ‘sea-glider’ developer Regency “raises USD60 million in investments”

In an X (formerly Twitter) social media post Billy Thalheimer, Co-founder and CEO of Regent, a company developing electrically powered “sea gliders”, has announced a USD60 million Series A funding package to a build full-scale […]

Emerging regulations

ASTM International publishes white paper on controlling autonomy processes in aviation

ASTM International’s autonomy design and operations in aviation administrative committee (AC377) has published a new white paper entitled, “Roles and Responsibilities for Operational Control in the Age of Increasingly Autonomous Flight.” “This white paper discusses […]

AAM/UAM route and programme news

AirTaxi World Congress: EHang outlines plans for eVTOL mass transport in China and beyond

At the AirTaxi World Congress event in San Francisco, #EHang board member Conor Yang gave a very different vision of the future of #advancedairmobility from other panelists. Type certification of the EH216 autonomous air vehicle (AAV) is imminent, he […]

AAM/UAM route and programme news

Odense partners with HCA Airport to develop vertiport infrastructure for flying taxis in Denmark

A new partnership between HCA Airport in Odense and Copenhagen Helicopter aims to support electrically-powered flying taxis between Denmark’s two largest cities. The first site will be launched over Funen with the end-goal to establish […]

Vertiports

FAA “grants first conditional vertiport approval” – to Blackstone, Virginia, Army Airfield

The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued the first conditional approval for a vertiport at Allen C. Perkinson Blackstone Army Airfield (KBKT), in Blackstone, Virginia. “This action creates a path for the airport to […]