Volatus Infrastructure to build vertiport at Bellefonte Airport

Vola­tus Infra­struc­ture has signed an agree­ment with Belle­fonte Air­port in Penn­syl­va­nia to build a pub­lic use FAA com­pli­ant eVTOL ver­ti­port with up to eight land­ing pads, includ­ing a charg­ing sta­tion at each pad.

The mod­u­lar ver­ti­port is expect­ed to be oper­a­tional lat­er this year and allows for quick on-site con­struc­tion as well as scal­able growth to expand with the advanced air mobil­i­ty (AAM) indus­try as it grows.

Belle­fonte Air­port will start with the ver­ti­port and a sin­gle land­ing pad with charg­ing sta­tion, with the abil­i­ty to scale up to eight land­ing pads with charg­ing sta­tions as the need for addi­tion­al space grows.

Vola­tus Infra­struc­ture co-founder Grant Fisk explained: “A project that start­ed out as a way to get fans to Penn State games with­out sit­ting in traf­fic on US 80 and State Route 322, has turned into what will become the cen­tre of an eVTOL ecosys­tem for the East Coast.

“We real­ized that Belle­fonte air­port is with­in 90 miles of all the major cities, so it just makes sense to expand this loca­tion which will lay the foun­da­tion for the eVTOL infra­struc­ture ecosys­tem for the East Coast.”

Belle­fonte Air­port man­ag­er John Elnit­s­ki added: “The Belle­fonte Air­port was used as one of the first air­mail stops at the incep­tion of the Air­mail ecosys­tem, and it is fit­ting that Belle­fonte Air­port will again meet this role for eVTOL use.”

Belle­fonte Air­port is locat­ed in the cen­ter of the state in Cen­tre Coun­ty, and is owned and oper­at­ed by Mari­na Elnit­s­ki, who has been involved with avi­a­tion since the late 70s.

Found­ed in 2021, Vola­tus Infra­struc­ture, LLC is con­nect­ing com­mu­ni­ties to the future with best-in-class eVTOL infra­struc­ture tech­nol­o­gy to ensure soci­ety is ready for the future.

Vola­tus offers three main eVTOL infra­struc­ture designs, a vehi­cle agnos­tic charg­ing sta­tion, plus an app and main­te­nance pro­grammes. By tai­lor­ing to spe­cif­ic needs while incor­po­rat­ing the lat­est tech­nolo­gies their work pos­i­tive­ly impacts clients and the com­mu­ni­ties they serve.