Built on an 18-month collaboration, the aim of the flight test campaign was to implement and scale an electric UAM ecosystem and testbed in NEOM, a smart city in Saudi Arabia.
After five years working together in a joint eVTOL study on Emergency Medical Services and rescue operations, this nonprofit has confirmed purchase of two Volocopter aircraft, with options for 150 more.
Volocopter and SITA, an IT provider to the air transport industry, have entered a partnership with SITA selected as Volocopter’s preferred digital and IT systems partner for vertiports.
The European Union Aviation Safety Authority and Japan Civil Aviation Bureau have accepted Volocopter’s application process for concurrent type certification (TC) of the fully electric VoloCity aircraft to fly commercially in Japan.
Diehl Aerospace has been commissioned with the development and production of optical avionics communications to complement the flight control system and the platform necessary for Volocopter to develop their own battery management system.
CAT magazine has been closely monitoring developments in the electric aircraft and electric vertical take off and landing sectors since our coverage of the 2019 FAA-EASA Safety Conference.