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AMSL Aero joins Greenbird’s Advanced Air Mobility platform and brings eVTOL manufacturer perspective

The Green­bird Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty (AAM) indus­try col­lab­o­ra­tion plat­form has announced AMSL Aero as a found­ing ecosys­tem part­ner.

AMSL Aero is Australia’s lead­ing eVTOL air­craft devel­op­er of the Ver­ti­ia air­craft, which is pow­ered by elec­tric bat­tery and hydro­gen to pro­vide the fastest door-to-door pas­sen­ger trans­port for dis­tances up to 1000km. 

It will trans­port up to six peo­ple and will have high built-in auton­o­my, with com­mer­cial pro­duc­tion antic­i­pat­ed in com­ing years, from a design claimed to be one of the world’s most effi­cient and afford­able eVTOL designs on the mar­ket.

AMSL Aero joins research insti­tu­tions and indus­try experts Archer­field Air­port Cor­po­ra­tion, Grif­fith Uni­ver­si­ty, Sky­ports, Nau­tilus Avi­a­tion, Avi­a­tor Group and Avi­a­tion Projects.

Green­bird Man­ag­ing Direc­tor, Sara Hales said: “We are pleased to have an Aus­tralian air­craft man­u­fac­tur­er join Green­bird and AMSL Aero, as this will con­tribute sig­nif­i­cant­ly to our under­stand­ing of the reg­u­la­to­ry frame­work for air­craft cer­ti­fi­ca­tion and con­tin­u­ing air­wor­thi­ness. 

“Air­craft safe­ty is crit­i­cal to estab­lish­ing com­mu­ni­ty accep­tance of AAM oper­a­tions, and AMSL Aero’s vision to build a safe air­craft aligns close­ly with our val­ues and vision for a robust and safe AAM ecosys­tem in Aus­tralia.”

In Novem­ber 2020, Aeromed­ical char­i­ty Care­Flight and AMSL Aero teamed up to launch a new eVTOL air ambu­lance ser­vice to tack­le rur­al and region­al health­care inequal­i­ty in the coun­try.

Ver­ti­ia was offi­cial­ly unveiled at CareFlight’s hangar in Syd­ney, with sup­port from the company’s project part­ners which include the Uni­ver­si­ty of Syd­ney, to form part of a $3 mil­lion Coop­er­a­tive Research Cen­tres Project grant from the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment for a two-year col­lab­o­ra­tive project with the Uni­ver­si­ty of Syd­ney and auton­o­my and sens­ing spe­cial­ists, Mis­sion Sys­tems.

Andrew Moore, Chief Exec­u­tive Offi­cer of AMSL Aero and inven­tor of Ver­ti­ia, said: “We are excit­ed to be col­lab­o­rat­ing with Green­bird on the future of AAM in Aus­tralia in order to pro­vide a net­work of expe­ri­enced avi­a­tion lead­ers across the pri­vate and pub­lic sec­tors, who are com­mit­ted, like AMSL Aero, to enabling the sus­tain­able avi­a­tion sec­tor in Aus­tralia.”

Led by trust­ed air­port and avi­a­tion indus­try advi­sors, AVISTRA, Green­bird is ded­i­cat­ed to facil­i­tat­ing the entry and growth of the AAM indus­try in Aus­tralia.

Bring­ing togeth­er inter­na­tion­al exper­tise and knowl­edge and local sup­ply chain part­ners, Green­bird will assist indus­try and gov­ern­ment to work togeth­er to dri­ve invest­ment attrac­tion, indus­try oper­a­tional­i­sa­tion, and local capa­bil­i­ty.

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Jason Pritchard

Jason Pritchard is the Editor of eVTOL Insights. He holds a BA from Leicester's De Montfort University and has worked in Journalism and Public Relations for more than a decade. Outside of work, Jason enjoys playing and watching football and golf. He also has a keen interest in Ancient Egypt.

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