The FAA and DOT recently partnered with Electra to conduct a series of hybrid-electric demonstration flights. Connecting small regional airports to major airline hubs across Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Virginia, these tests will provide data essential to integrating Advanced Air Mobility safely into the National Airspace System.
Advanced Air Mobility
Electric Aircraft Symposium Returns to Oshkosh
The 20th Annual Electric Aircraft Symposium returns to Oshkosh this July, bringing together more than 50 industry leaders to discuss the future of advanced air mobility.
Electric Aircraft Flight Tests Take Off in Hawaii
Surf Air Mobility and BETA Technologies have launched an electric aircraft demonstration program in Hawaii. In partnership with Hawaiian Airlines, the flight test program is designed to evaluate the operational and infrastructure requirements for integrating electric aviation into the National Airspace System.
Listening to Radio Calls Helps Drones Better Predict Where Human Pilots are Flying
Researchers at Georgia Tech are developing new ways for autonomous aircraft to safely navigate non-towered airports. By interpreting human pilot radio transmissions using advanced language models, drones can accurately predict flight paths and avoid collisions in shared general aviation airspace.
Eight Projects, 26 States Selected for AAM Flight Testing
The FAA has selected eight proposals as part of the new Advanced Air Mobility and Electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing (eVTOL) Integration Pilot Program (eIPP).
FAA Expands UAS Test Site Network for First Time Since 2016
The expansion of the test locations is designed to accelerate the integration of drones into the National Airspace System, including how they will share that space with manned aircraft.
Nation’s first AAM strategy released
The strategy and accompanying action plan outline 40 recommendations to “safely and efficiently support Advanced Air Mobility operations,” according to DOT officials.
Test flights begin for unmanned Cessna 208
Reliable’s flight tests will demonstrate regional air cargo operations in a terminal area in which maneuvers, procedures, ATC interactions, and implications of visual clearances for remotely piloted operations are assessed. Multiple data collection flights will be conducted, including flights designed to demonstrate contingency scenarios including lost link procedures, detect and avoid with visual observers, and Global Positioning System degraded and denied scenarios, according to officials with Reliable Robotics.
Virginia launches advanced air mobility and unmanned systems test site
Developed to support the deployment of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), urban air mobility solutions, and other advanced aviation platforms, the program will serve as an operational proving ground for new capabilities that align with Virginia’s Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) strategy, public-private priorities, and long-term economic goals, according to state aviation officials.