UAM infrastructure

California’s latest AAM three-year workplan highlights eVTOL infrastructure challenges facing states

By Philip Butterworth-Hayes California’s Caltrans “Advanced Air Mobility Infrastructure Readiness and Three-Year Implementation Work Plan 2026 report”, recently published, highlights some of the infrastructure challenges, alongside the opportunities, facing the US states as they prepare […]

Air taxis and personal transports

SkyDrive to work with six Singapore tech companies to advanced eVTOL development

Japan’s SkyDrive has announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for joint research, development, and technical validation focused on key component technologies for eVTOL aircraft with six Singapore-based technology companies — Accuron […]

Fixed wing low/zero emissions

“250 pre-sale orders for the all-electric MD Aircraft MDA1 eViator regional airliner”

MD Aircraft has announced in a Linkedin post that 250 MDA1 eViator™ aircraft have now been pre-sold. The MDA1 eViator is a 9/10 passenger regional aircraft powered by an all-electric system featuring swappable electric power […]

Air taxis and personal transports

Electra demonstrates hybrid-electric Ultra Short aircraft capability at Downtown Skyport on New York

Electra today announced the takeoff and landing of its hybrid-electric Ultra Short aircraft at Downtown Skyport in Lower Manhattan, marking what is believed to be the first-ever landing at the heliport by a fixed-wing aircraft […]

Air taxis and personal transports

Florida Polytechnic University buys Jetson ONE personal eVTOL for law enforcement, research

Jetson Inc has announced that Florida Polytechnic University has selected the Jetson ONE as what the University describes as the world’s first electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft intended for integration into law-enforcement operations. The […]

Air taxis and personal transports

AVERON Aerospace launches the A-001 hybrid-electric tiltrotor

AVERON Aerospace has announced it is developing the A-001, a next-generation hybrid-electric tiltrotor aircraft designed to expand access to emergency medical services in remote and infrastructure-limited regions. “Combining helicopter-like vertical takeoff and landing with the […]