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Urban Movement Labs Partners with Overair on Los Angeles eVTOL Infrastructure

Urban Move­ment Labs (UML) has announced a new part­ner­ship with eVTOL com­pa­ny Overair to bring urban air mobil­i­ty (UAM) to the greater Los Ange­les met­ro­pol­i­tan area, which will focus on imple­ment­ing safe, equi­table, con­ve­nient, and sus­tain­able UAM.

Overair will work with UML and the UAM Part­ner­ship to explore oper­a­tional and infra­struc­ture devel­op­ment, and will help study the noise impacts of eVTOL vehi­cles to plan work­force and eco­nom­ic UAM devel­op­ment oppor­tu­ni­ties.

Overair aims to posi­tion its But­ter­fly eVTOL vehi­cle, which will car­ry five pas­sen­gers and a pilot or 1100 pounds of car­go, and will trav­el dis­tances of approx­i­mate­ly 100 miles at speeds up to 200 mph.

Based in Orange Coun­ty, Cal­i­for­nia, Overair plans to ini­ti­ate com­mer­cial oper­a­tions in 2026.

Overair CEO and Co-Founder Ben Tign­er said: “The Los Ange­les met­ro­pol­i­tan area can ben­e­fit from advanced air mobil­i­ty giv­en the increased dai­ly trav­el times in South­ern Cal­i­for­nia.

“Work­ing with UML, we are on the path to pro­vid­ing reli­able, afford­able, equi­table, and sus­tain­able trans­porta­tion options to Los Ange­les and sur­round­ing areas.”

UML Exec­u­tive Direc­tor Sam Mor­ris­sey added: “We are proud to part­ner with Overair and the UAM Part­ner­ship on oppor­tu­ni­ties to engage the com­mu­ni­ties of Los Ange­les on future UAM oper­a­tions.

“As a local South­ern Cal­i­for­nia com­pa­ny, Overair shares with us the val­ues of plan­ning a safe, equi­table, and sus­tain­able UAM future, which will allow UML to fur­ther advance the goals of the UAM Part­ner­ship.”

Overair and UML will dis­cuss cre­at­ing infra­struc­ture in the Los Ange­les area in con­junc­tion with oth­er com­pa­nies with­in the part­ner­ship.

In Jan­u­ary, Overair began a full-scale propul­sion sys­tem test pro­gramme for its But­ter­fly eVTOL air­craft, whose vec­tored thrust design and opti­mum speed pro­pellers allow it to fly safe­ly in adverse weath­er con­di­tions with high­er pay­loads.

Last week, Sky­roads announced a part­ner­ship with UML to deploy tech-enabled mobil­i­ty in Los Ange­les, which invests over $13 bil­lion a year on trans­porta­tion projects alone, and is work­ing on 28 trans­porta­tion mega-projects for the 2028 Olympics, such as the Pur­ple Line Sub­way Exten­sion and the LA Riv­er Bike Path.

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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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