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Munich Airport, Airbus To Help
Cities Start eVTOL Ops
Munich
Airport and Airbus are seeking to help cities and regions develop
infrastructure to support advanced air mobility (AAM) services using eVTOLs.
To that end, the two entities announced an expansion of their partnership
last week at the ILA Berlin Air Show. In
May, the German hub airport joined forces with Airbus, the city of
Ingolstadt, railway company Deutsche Bahn, aviation safety agency Deutsche
Flugsicherung, uncrewed air traffic management (UTM) specialist Droniq, and
Diehl Aerospace, to establish the Air Mobility Initiative (AMI).
Airbus is developing the four-passenger CityAirbus NextGen eVTOL that it aims
to bring into service in 2025. With
the support of the Bavarian state government and German federal officials,
the project is intended to assess the basis on which commercial eVTOL
air-taxi operations could be launched to connect German cities, as well as to
advance arrangements for UTM infrastructure and vertiports. The
AMI collaboration is backed by €86 million ($91 million) in public-private
funding. This includes €24 million from the German federal government and €17
million from the state of Bavaria. Want more? You can find a longer
version of this article at FutureFlight.aero, a news and information resource developed by AIN to provide objective coverage
and analysis of cutting-edge aviation technology. |
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