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PLANA, OneSky Sign MOU for AAM Aircraft Operations

PLANA, a devel­op­er of Hybrid Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty (AAM), has signed a Mem­o­ran­dum of Under­stand­ing (MOU) with OneSky, an Uncrewed Traf­fic Man­age­ment (UTM) solu­tions provider, reports a press release. The sign­ing cer­e­mo­ny took place at the PLANA Incheon R&D Cen­tre in South Korea.

The busi­ness agree­ment was attend­ed by offi­cials from both com­pa­nies includ­ing PLANA CSO and co-Founder, Miny­oung Ahn, and OneSky CEO, Robert Ham­mett. Through this MOU, PLANA will par­tic­i­pate in OneSky’s Future of Flight pro­gram (FOFP).

OneSky’s FOFP is “a coop­er­a­tive ecosys­tem of indus­try lead­ers and inno­va­tors that allows part­ners to come togeth­er to short­en the time it takes to get to scal­able oper­a­tions,” explains the release. “Cur­rent­ly, more than 20 com­pa­nies are par­tic­i­pat­ing in the pro­gram, includ­ing Sky­ports and Vola­tus, as well as Echo­dyne, a radar devel­op­er and Super­nal, Hyundai’s UAM US sub­sidiary.”

Miny­oung Ahn, com­ment­ed, “For safe and effi­cient avi­a­tion of AAM air­craft, it is nec­es­sary to utilise UTM func­tions for automa­tion and long-term process­es includ­ing VFR. We expect to be able to acquire var­i­ous tech­nolo­gies and know-how relat­ed to AAM air­craft oper­a­tion through this coop­er­a­tion.”

Robert Ham­mett, added, “Through this agree­ment, we will con­tribute to the evolv­ing AAM indus­try by imple­ment­ing safe air­craft oper­a­tion through shar­ing know-how and coop­er­a­tion.”

PLANA’s CP-01 Hybrid eVTOL Air­craft

The two com­pa­nies aim to com­bine OneSky’s air­space sit­u­a­tion­al aware­ness, flight plan­ning, sim­u­la­tion and UTM/UATM solu­tions with PLANA’s expe­ri­ence in devel­op­ing and man­u­fac­tur­ing hybrid-elec­tric ver­ti­cal take­off and land­ing (e/VTOL) air­craft. In addi­tion, they plan to ver­i­fy the oper­a­tional con­cept of PLANA’s CP-01 air­craft which is under devel­op­ment; refine the tech­ni­cal roadmap by coor­di­nat­ing tech­ni­cal require­ments; explore solu­tions for AAM indus­try reg­u­la­tions in var­i­ous coun­tries; and dis­cov­er busi­ness mod­els.

For more infor­ma­tion

https://plana.aero

https://www.onesky.xyz

(Top pho­to: Miny­oung Ahn and Robert Ham­mett — cred­it PLANA)

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