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Skyports tests drone deliveries of meals to schools in Scotland

Bruce Crumley - Jun. 20th 2022 2:50 am PT @BDroneDJ

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Building from the momentum of previous and ongoing activities in the nation, drone services and vertiport builder Skyports has agreed to operate a test program in Scotland aiming to launch routine aerial deliveries of hot meals to remote schools in the Highlands and Hebrides islands.

France’s SITA to provide IT services at Skyports’ AAM vertiports

Bruce Crumley - Jun. 15th 2022 1:07 am PT @BDroneDJ

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Wearing its increasingly large hat as a next-generation advanced air mobility (AAM) infrastructure builder, Skyports has struck a partnership with French air industry IT specialist SITA to outfit its future vertiports with digital services facilitating passenger use of air taxi transportation.

Skyports, Swoop Aero, Astral Aerial Solutions partner in Kenya’s first BVLOS medical drone deliveries

Bruce Crumley - Jun. 1st 2022 1:37 am PT @BDroneDJ

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Drone service companies Skyports and Swoop Aero are extending their past partnerships to Kenya, where they’ve teamed up with local UAV operator Astral Aerial Solutions in a series of the nation’s first beyond line of sight (BVLOS) delivery trials to prepare for regular transport of medical supplies.

Skyports strikes new vertiport infrastructure partnership in Japan

Bruce Crumley - May. 27th 2022 5:40 am PT @BDroneDJ

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Pursuing a similar strategy it introduced in the US, vertiport infrastructure specialist Skyports is teaming up with Japan’s largest parking lot and car sharing operator, PARK24 CO., to adapt existing structures as hosts of future air taxi and other advance air mobility (AAM) services.

Skyports in cargo drone delivery infrastructure deal with Singapore’s Jurong Port

Bruce Crumley - May. 24th 2022 6:38 am PT @BDroneDJ

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Drone services and urban air mobility (UAM) vertiport specialist Skyports has signed an agreement with the operators of Singapore’s Jurong Port – the only facility in the city-state serving as a multi-purpose cargo platform – to oversee development of infrastructure for planned ship-to-shore UAV deliveries.

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Blueprint for integrating autonomous air taxis into the national airspace system

Ishveena Singh - Apr. 13th 2022 11:05 am PT @IshveenaSingh

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Wisk Aero, a California-based manufacturer of passenger-grade air taxis, has joined forces with UK vertiport developer Skyports to explore how autonomous eVTOL operations can be safely integrated into the national airspace system (NAS). The two firms have released a novel Concept of Operations (ConOps) that outlines the upgrades, retrofits, and procedure changes that will be required for the safe transport of passengers in an autonomous eVTOL aircraft.