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AFWERX is highlighting efforts for Advanced Air Mobility integration at XPONENTIAL 2024 convention in San Diego.

Pivotal delivered four of eight BlackFly light eVTOL aircraft to MTSI for evaluation by AFWERX and the United States Air Force....

The Air Force is looking for ways to use electric aircraft for everything from shuttling cargo and passengers around a base to evacuating downed airmen.

A three-month test of the battery-powered ALIA has the service looking to move ahead.

The US eVTOL community recently took an incremental, but significant step forward when AIR announced its next phase of participation in the US Air Force’s AFWERX Agility Prime Program. Of importance to Halldale Group’s MS&T and CAT followers, while AIR is creating eVTOLs for the consumer market, it concurrently completed Agility Prime’s third phase and is now under a formal agreement to continue future work with the government customer. 

To address eVTOL aircraft battery management, a US Air Force program recently received a demonstration of a mobile battery care station developed by Arctech Charge.

Marking an historic flight, a Cessna Caravan recently flew without an on-board pilot marking a major step forward for crewless transportation for cargo and military needs

Vermont-based electric aviation startup Beta Technologies announce the deployment of their ALIA aircraft at the Eglin Air Force Base in Florida.

The project for the first electric aircraft charging station on a U.S. military instillation has officially broken ground, with a completion date in early October.

The vehicles will first be flown remotely to shuttle cargo around Edwards Air Force Base, followed by human pilots and passengers next year.