Horizon Aircraft is advancing the all-weather certification pathway of its Cavorite X7 through the Company’s ongoing partnership with Flight Centre of Excellence and anti-icing technologies being developed by the University of Toronto. “Progress has been steady on the Company’s previously announced USD10.5 million INSAT-funded all-weather vertical propulsion eVTOL project in collaboration with 3C and UofT,”

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced on 31 August that Elroy Air and the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development conducted a hybrid-electric demonstration flight to test cargo deliveries using remotely piloted aircraft at Houma-Terrebonne Airport in Louisiana. This is the first remotely piloted aircraft test flight under the FAA’s eVTOL Integration Pilot Program (eIPP).

EHang has announced that its EH216-S  successfully completed its first public flight at Hong Kong Cyberport. “The flight marked the first public demonstration since the first phase of validation flights began in mid-August under the HKSAR Government’s Low-Altitude Economy “Regulatory Sandbox X” Trial Project (the “Project”),” said EHang in a press release. “It also represents a

India’s ePlane Company (Ubifly Technologies) has placed a firm order with HENSOLDT for its flagship “e200X”. HENSOLDT supplies what ePlane describes as the “digital nervous system” of the e200X. An avionics suite for navigation, situational awareness and secure connectivity in dense urban airspace the “EuroNav 7 NG” digital moving map handles navigation and mission management

Electra has announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the City of Helsinki and Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences to explore how Direct Aviation can enable faster, quieter, and more efficient regional air mobility across the Gulf of Finland. The partners will study a new approach to Helsinki-Tallinn connectivity using Electra’s Ultra

Zuri today unveiled the Zuri uncrewed cargo VTOL, a hybrid-electric tiltrotor for civil and defence operators. “It carries a hundred-plus kilograms over 679 km by design, or 569 km with a full 30-minute reserve, cruises at 220 km/h, and lands on a pad, a deck, or open ground,” said the company in a press release.

Wisk Aero today announced the groundbreaking of a new state-of-the-art vertiport at Hollister Municipal Airport in California. “The facility is one of the first public airport vertiports designed to support both piloted and autonomous operations in the United States,” said the company in a press release. “Located alongside Wisk’s existing flight test facilities in Hollister,

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) reports it has completed a month-long flight-test campaign in Germany with Singapore’s first indigenously designed, engineered and built electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. Working with flight-test experts from the German Aerospace Center (DLR), the NTU team flew the larger 8-metre wingspan demonstrator to heights above 90 metres, while the

Israeli eVTOL developer AIR has announced a strategic partnership with Elmo Motion Control to integrate motion control solution into AIR’s Heavy Lift UAS – a VTOL-capable uncrewed cargo aircraft capable of 550lb payloads. “The partnership brings together Elmo’s compact, high-power density servo drives and AIR’s next-generation electric aviation design to support the goal of maximizing aircraft efficiency

Indian eVTOL develop Sarla has announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with Hexcel Corporation for the supply of aerospace-grade composite materials. “For an eVTOL, structural weight is a primary design driver,” said the company in a Linkedin post. “Every kilogram in the airframe is a kilogram taken from payload, range or battery. The