Air taxis and personal transports

FI 2024: AAM operations planning company LYNEports wins Aerospace Xelerated start-up competition

Advanced air mobility operations planning company LYNEports has been selected as the winner of the Aerospace Xelerated (AX) Startup Pitch Competition at the 2024 Farnborough International Airshow. The Romanian company,  specialising enabling ground and airspace […]

Air taxis and personal transports

Vertical Aerospace reports its latest VX4 prototype has made first tethered piloted flight

Vertical Aerospace has announced its latest VX4 prototype has performed its first tethered piloted flight as it begins the “wheels up” phase of testing.  “This VX4 performed a piloted flight while loosely tethered to the […]

Air taxis and personal transports

FI 2024: Dubai-based Air Chateau places pre-order for 10 CRISALION Integrity eVTOLs

Dubai-based Air Chateau has announced a pre-order for 10 Integrity eVTOLs, bringing CRISALION’s pre-order book to 125 in less than a year. The partnership represents the company’s first commercial partnership in both the private aviation […]

Air taxis and personal transports

FI 2024: Honeywell to supply Electra with flight control systems, makes strategic investment

Honeywell has announced that Electra.aero has selected Honeywell flight control computers and electromechanical actuation systems for its nine-passenger hybrid-electric short takeoff and landing (eSTOL) aircraft. Additionally, Honeywell has made a strategic financial investment in Electra. […]

Air taxis and personal transports

Lyte Aviation chooses H3 Dynamics to equip its 40-seat VTOL with hydrogen propulsion system

LYTE Aviation reports it has selected Toulouse-based H3 Dynamics to equip its new 40-seater VTOL aircraft with aviation-grade hydrogen-electric fuel cell propulsion systems. “Furthermore, in order to secure competitive hydrogen fuel for its new hydrogen […]

Air taxis and personal transports

France’s Council of State rules in favour today of Volocopter flights for Paris Olympics

Multiple press sources report France’s Council of State, the supreme administrative judge in France, has today ruled in favour of Volocopter flights taxis during the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games (July 26 – September 8). […]

Air taxis and personal transports

FI 2024: VoltAero, Sigma Air Mobility link to progress Cassio electric-hybrid aircraft missions

VoltAero and Sigma Air Mobility are working together to plan Cassio electric-hybrid aircraft demonstration pilot projects, with a focus on air ambulance mission. “This Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was announced today during a press conference […]

Air taxis and personal transports

FI 2024: Honeywell and Odys partner to develop eVTOL/drone ground stations in the Middle East

Honeywell and Odys Aviation, a developer of advanced hybrid Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) aircraft, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to collaborate on the design of new Ground Control Stations to support the […]

Air taxis and personal transports

FI 2024: Australia’s Wilbur Air announces pre-order for 100 CRISALION Integrity eVTOLs

CRISALION Mobility has today signed a strategic agreement with Wilbur Air for a pre-order of 100 Integrity aircraft. Wilbur Air, a wholly owned airline subsidiary of Australian eVTOL infrastructure developer, Skyportz, will operate CRISALION’s Integrity […]