Skyports announces projects in Saudi Arabia and UAE news Yves Le Marquand 12 Feb 25 0 Skyports Drone Services has made its first entry into Saudi Arabia through a collaboration with Iot Squared, a joint venture between the country’s Public Investment… Read more
‘US air taxi certification likely pushed to 2027’ news Yves Le Marquand 17 Jan 25 0 The first type certification of an eVTOL aircraft in the US is unlikely to be issued before 2027. That was the takeaway message following… Read more
UAE regulator approves Skyports’ first vertiport design news Yves Le Marquand 9 Jan 25 0 Skyports has received technical design approval from the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) General Civil Aviation Authority for its first commercial vertiport in the country. Named… Read more
Atlantic Aviation acquires Ferrovial Vertiports news Yves Le Marquand 8 Jan 25 0 Atlantic Aviation has acquired Ferrovial Vertiports, the vertiport business of infrastructure company Ferrovial. As a wholly owned subsidiary of Atlantic, Ferrovial Vertiports will immediately begin… Read more
Skyports breaks ground on UK vertiport development news Yves Le Marquand 13 Dec 24 0 Skyports Infrastructure and Bicester Motion have broken ground on the UK’s first vertiport testbed development. The vertiport is under construction on a plot of 0.42… Read more
Joint venture formed to create Lombardy vertiport network news Yves Le Marquand 10 Oct 24 0 Skyports Infrastructure has formed a joint venture with the owner of Milan’s airports SEA Milan and an Italian airport infrastructure investment firm controlled by F2i… Read more
Skyportz and Microflite to assess vertiport locations in Melbourne news Yves Le Marquand 4 Oct 24 0 The operator of Melbourne’s heliport Microflite is to work with Skyportz to identify locations for new vertiports around the city. Microflite has taken the decision… Read more
Altaport white paper provides conops for automated vertiport news Yves Le Marquand 9 Sep 24 0 Altaport and engineering and design multinational, WSP have released a concept of operations (conops) analysing the business requirements of a vertiport automation system (VAS). Identifying conops for… Read more
Skyports and Wagner partner on vertiport development news Yves Le Marquand 14 Aug 24 0 Skyports Infrastructure has partnered with Australian property investment firm Wagner Corporation to assess vertiport development opportunities in Queensland. The partnership will look at development opportunities in… Read more
UK’s first permanent vertiport opens near Snowdonia news Yves Le Marquand 16 Jul 24 0 Now open for drone and eVTOL testing, the UK’s first permanent vertiport has been constructed at Snowdonia Aerospace Centre. Known as a permanent or temporary… Read more
French government gives go ahead on Seine vertiport construction news Yves Le Marquand 10 Jul 24 0 France’s Ministry of Transport has given authorisation for the construction of a floating landing pad on the River Seine in Paris for electric air taxi… Read more
Skyports Infrastructure partners with Jeju Air on Korean vertiport deployment news Yves Le Marquand 24 Jun 24 0 Skyports Infrastructure has formed a partnership with Jeju Air, Korea’s largest low-cost airline, to support vertiport deployment for air taxi operations in the country. Skyports… Read more