Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
The company expects the first use cases to be aerial work.
Advanced Air Mobility

Aviation Week Staff
Uncrewed helicopter manufacturer and aerial intelligence company SwissDrones has secured $10 million in Series B funding.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
The AAM Stock Composite dropped 2.7% last week, compared to a 1.9% increase in the S&P 500.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
The company is now “cleaning up” the study so that it can be peer reviewed and released publicly by the Energy Department.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
The fly-off is intended to lead to a follow-on engineering and manufacturing development phase and initial production.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Archer Aviation CEO Adam Goldstein recently made a bold prediction about the potential for urban air mobility (UAM) in India.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Thierry Dubois
Lilium is in advanced discussions with the French government for subsidies and loan guarantees.
EBACE

By Ben Goldstein
Archer expects to make the first transition of its full-scale Midnight prototype in the coming months, marking a key milestone in development of its air taxi.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
Brazilian helicopter operator Helisul has acquired Chilean counterpart Ecocopter to form one of the largest rotary-wing operators in Latin America.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Ben Goldstein
Infrastructure startup Urban-Air Port believes use of its Vertical Airfield concept could help unlock new efficiency for the advanced air mobility industry.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Garrett Reim
Archer Aviation has finished building its battery pack manufacturing line in San Jose, California.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Joby continues to advance toward type certification, submitting test plans for its S4 air taxi, while continuing with certification tests of components.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Angus Batey
Volare, the sales, management, maintenance and charter provider to be the launch customer for the Lilium Jet, expects to receive 10 aircraft by mid-2026.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Ben Goldstein
Embraer spinoff Eve Air Mobility says it is on track to complete assembly of its first full-scale prototype before the end of the second quarter.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Lilium plans to sell 20 Lilium Jets to startup airline UrbanLink for use in regional air mobility services across South Florida.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Garrett Reim
Chevron Pipe Line and American Aerospace Technologies won a waiver from the FAA to conduct Beyond Visual Line of Sight flights of a drone to inspect pipelines.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Jens Flottau
The CEO of Lilium says the company may have to leave Germany if it cannot secure government funding for development and certification of its Lilium Jet.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
A consortium led by H2Fly has received German government funding to develop a 350-kW hydrogen fuel cell system designed for commercial aircraft applications.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Ben Goldstein
Skyports Infrastructure and the government of Ras Al Khaimah have agreed to develop a vertiport network to facilitate air-taxi services beginning in 2027.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
The following items contain news of various AAM companies and organizations.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Wichita State University’s National Institute for Aviation Research is adding a facility to enable tethered flight testing of eVTOL aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
A subscale flight demonstrator of distributed electric propulsion for large passenger aircraft has made its remotely piloted first flight.
Advanced Air Mobility Departments

By Ben Goldstein
The AAM Stock Composite was little changed during the week ended May 3, declining by around 1%, while the S&P 500 ticked up 0.5%.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
U.S. electric seaglider startup Regent has partnered with sustainable- and maritime-aircraft lessor Monte to offer leasing options for the Viceroy seaglider.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Ben Goldstein
Australian vertiport startup boss Skyportz has been working to assemble the elements needed to enable an advanced air mobility (AAM) ecosystem in its home country.
Aircraft & Propulsion