Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Archer Aviation has unveiled the completion of a series of initial battery drop tests, demonstrating the safety and resiliency of its proprietary battery packs.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Kriya Shortt, Textron eAviation’s CEO, sat down with the AAM Report to discuss the company’s various programs and overarching vision for sustainable aviation.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Dutch startup Electron Aerospace has unveiled an updated design for its Electron 5, a four-passenger, battery-electric aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
XTI Aerospace hopes its new life as a publicly traded company will unlock the resources required to develop the TriFan 600 VTOL business aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Guy Norris
Leading British aerospace research center Cranfield University is set to establish the UK’s first airport-based, large-scale hydrogen research hub.
Sustainability

Projected entry-into-service dates for AAM startups, updated in March 2024.
AWIN Knowledge Center

An estimation of the number of test flights needed to type certify electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicles.
AWIN Knowledge Center

Aviation Week Staff
China’s EHang has established Japan’s first urban air mobility (UAM) center, in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Industry has welcomed the FAA’s revisions to the airworthiness criteria for Joby Aviation’s S4 electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Surf Air Mobility has signed am MOU with Tanzanian regional carrier Auric Air Services to upgrade 12 of its Cessna Caravans with its electric powertrains.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
The AAM Stock Composite rose by around 9% during the week ending March 22, boosted by a continued rally in shares of EHang.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
AeroHT is developing the Land-based Aircraft Carrier, an all-electric, five-passenger off-road SUV that carries a two-passenger multirotor eVTOL in its trunk.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
The CarryAll is the first version of AutoFlight’s planned Prosperity family of 2,000-kg gross weight eVTOL uncrewed cargo and piloted passenger aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Steve Trimble
Lockheed Martin Ventures led a group of 14 investors that raised a $12.5 million seed round investment in Firestorm Labs.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
The FAA has released proposed special conditions for type certification of electric engines developed by Beta Technologies and Safran.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
U.S. autonomous aviation startup Reliable Robotics has announced the receipt of two new contract awards from the Department of Defense and NASA.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Eve Air Mobility has chosen the name Vector for its in-development urban air traffic management solution, with first deliveries now planned for 2026.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
A UK-based startup has begun flight tests of a co-axial, rotary-wing UAS that it hopes to bring to the military market in the next two years.
Aircraft & Propulsion

A ranking of AAM infrastructure startups, March 2024.
AWIN Knowledge Center

Liquidity of AAM startups as of end of Q4 2023.
AWIN Knowledge Center

Aviation Week Staff
Automaker Stellantis has completed the open-market purchase of an additional 8.3 million shares in eVTOL vehicle developer Archer Aviation.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
The Incheon metropolitan government has released an advanced air mobility concept of operations for the port city, South Korea’s third largest metropolis.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Joby Aviation has agreed to deliver two aircraft to MacDill AFB in Tampa, Florida, widening its existing partnership with the U.S. Air Force.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Routine drone operations across the country by 2027 and autonomous air taxi demonstration flights by 2030 are among targets set in the future aviation plan.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Angus Batey
Integrating the first UAM aircraft into today’s urban airspace environments is going to be a huge challenge, a UK panel says.
Advanced Air Mobility