Eve Air Mobility to develop UAM services in Brazil with Helisul Aviation, includes 50-strong order of eVTOL aircraft

Eve Air Mobil­i­ty has part­nered with Helisul Avi­a­tion, one of the largest heli­copter oper­a­tors in Latin Amer­i­ca, to help pre­pare Brazil for urban air mobil­i­ty oper­a­tions. It includes an ini­tial order of 50 eVTOL air­craft, with deliv­er­ies expect­ed to start in 2026.

Over the last few years, Eve and Helisul have been col­lab­o­rat­ing to eval­u­ate how to co-cre­ate solu­tions for Urban Air Mobil­i­ty, lever­ag­ing Brazil’s exist­ing air taxi infra­struc­ture – which is one of the largest in the world – for the use of Eve’s air­craft, cur­rent­ly in devel­op­ment.

Both com­pa­nies will begin this new part­ner­ship by work­ing togeth­er on a proof of con­cept oper­a­tion, using heli­copters in order to val­i­date para­me­ters that will apply to the future eVTOL oper­a­tions.

It will aim to devel­op new ser­vices and pro­ce­dures that, togeth­er with com­mu­ni­ties and oth­er indus­try stake­hold­ers, can cre­ate a safe and scal­able oper­at­ing envi­ron­ment for eVTOL oper­a­tions to expand, focus­ing on crit­i­cal aspects to design for all users. This will include how to max­imise acces­si­bil­i­ty and inclu­sive­ness in ver­ti­ports and eVTOL board­ing oper­a­tions.

Andre Stein, Pres­i­dent & CEO of Eve Urban Air Mobil­i­ty, said: “Dis­rup­tive Urban Air Mobil­i­ty solu­tions can bring same type of ben­e­fits that avi­a­tion already brought to longer trips lit­er­al­ly clos­er to peo­ple, giv­ing urban com­muters more options to move around the city.

“Our part­ner­ship with Helisul Avi­a­tion allows us to dis­rupt Brazil’s already large air taxi infra­struc­ture and it is well-posi­tioned for the future of flight trans­porta­tion. Our team will pro­vide com­pre­hen­sive ser­vices, includ­ing Urban Air Traf­fic Man­age­ment solu­tions, while ben­e­fit­ing from Helisul’s unique mar­ket posi­tion.

Helisul has near­ly five decades expe­ri­ence in the rotary wing mar­ket, with a fleet of more than 50 air­craft and 14 bases through­out Brazil. The com­pa­ny offers ser­vices which include sight­see­ing flights, trans­mis­sion line inspec­tions, aeromed­ical trans­port, exter­nal car­go and char­ter flights.

Luis Car­los Munhoz da Rocha, Com­mer­cial Direc­tor of Helisul Avi­a­tion, said: “This part­ner­ship with Eve is cause for great sat­is­fac­tion to Helisul. Eve is look­ing far ahead of the mar­ket needs and Helisul shall fol­low all its steps hand-in-hand.

“With cities grow­ing big­ger and traf­fic more and more con­gest­ed, our part­ner­ship to build intel­li­gent solu­tions and prac­tices for urban mobil­i­ty in the big cities will improve qual­i­ty of life reduc­ing air pol­lu­tion and mov­ing times with door-to-door trans­porta­tion.”

The lat­est announce­ment from Eve fol­lows on from last week’s news, where the com­pa­ny con­firmed it would be sup­ply­ing Halo Avi­a­tion with 200 eVTOL air­craft. The deal is regard­ed as one of the biggest in the mar­ket so far, with deliv­er­ies for these air­craft also expect­ed to begin in 2026.

In addi­tion to its air­craft pro­gramme, Eve is har­ness­ing the exper­tise of both Embraer and Ate­ch, a sub­sidiary of the Embraer Group, to pro­vide glob­al­ly recog­nised air traf­fic man­age­ment soft­ware.