Air taxis and personal transports

Archer agrees financing and development of “high volume” Georgia manufacturing plant

Today, Archer Aviation In. announced that it has closed agreements with Synovus Bank and Evans General Contractors, LLC for the financing and development of its high-volume manufacturing facility in Covington, Georgia, USA. “Construction is already underway on the […]

Air taxis and personal transports

Hydrogen-powered Luftcar flying car manufacturer reports potential USD100 million funding

LuftCar LLC, a US based hydrogen powered aircraft developer, has announced it has received a “term sheet” for USD100 million investment from GEM Global Yield LLC SCS (“GEM”), a Luxembourg-based private equity group. “The funds […]

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 […]