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ANRA Technologies and NAVOS Air Ink Agreement to develop vertiports for Urban Air Mobility

ANRA Tech­nolo­gies has announced a col­lab­o­ra­tion with NAVOS Air to incor­po­rate flight­path pro­ce­dures into ANRA’s Ver­ti­port Man­age­ment Ser­vice for VTOL air­craft oper­a­tions for Urban Air Mobil­i­ty.

This joint under­tak­ing com­bines first-of-its-kind ser­vices and tech­nolo­gies to accel­er­ate safe and com­pli­ant ver­ti­port imple­men­ta­tion in the Unit­ed States.

The ANRA-NAVOS part­ner­ship will also ben­e­fit from ANRA’s years of expe­ri­ence devel­op­ing its UAM traf­fic man­age­ment capa­bil­i­ty with the FAA, NASA, and inter­na­tion­al­ly. It will allow UAM oper­a­tors to plan and exe­cute their flight oper­a­tions from pad to pad effi­cient­ly, sup­port­ed by a com­pre­hen­sive suite of ser­vices.

Amit Gan­joo, Founder and CEO of ANRA Tech­nolo­gies, said: “While many ver­ti­port providers are busy build­ing the phys­i­cal infra­struc­ture and con­cep­tu­al­iz­ing the pas­sen­ger expe­ri­ence, ANRA has devel­oped the dig­i­tal lay­er. Part­ner­ing with NAVOS allows us to bring a more com­plete solu­tion to the mar­ket faster, espe­cial­ly when com­bined with our Urban Air Mobil­i­ty traf­fic man­age­ment tech­nol­o­gy.”

NAVOS Air is autho­rised by the Fed­er­al Avi­a­tion Admin­is­tra­tion (FAA) to devel­op and main­tain non-Part 97 (spe­cial) satel­lite-based per­for­mance-based nav­i­ga­tion (PBN) instru­ment flight pro­ce­dures (IFPs) and to con­duct Heli­port eval­u­a­tion and des­ig­na­tion. 

The com­pa­ny exists to expand safe access to ter­mi­nal envi­ron­ments, off-air­port loca­tions and the Nation­al Air­space Sys­tem for under­served and emerg­ing avi­a­tion sec­tors by focus­ing on Heli­copter, Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty (AAM), Uncrewed Air­craft Sys­tems (UAS) and autonomous air­craft sys­tem instru­ment pro­ce­dure design, devel­op­ment, and val­i­da­tion and Heliport/Vertiport des­ig­na­tion.

Ty Le Roy, Chief Design­er at NAVOS Air, said: “As an exten­sion of our Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty (AAM) instru­ment pro­ce­dure inte­gra­tion work, we were able to lever­age our heli­copter, low-lev­el flight and reg­u­la­to­ry expe­ri­ence to obtain the first FAA con­di­tion­al approval for a ver­ti­port.

“Build­ing upon this expe­ri­ence in our new part­ner­ship with ANRA, we will design FAA-com­pli­ant flight path infra­struc­ture that will be incor­po­rat­ed into ANRA’s soft­ware for sup­port­ing VTOL air­craft arrivals and depar­tures from ver­ti­ports.”

ANRA recent­ly launched its Ver­ti­port Man­age­ment Sys­tem (VMS), a ver­sa­tile web-based soft­ware plat­form designed to adapt to var­i­ous air­craft, ver­ti­ports, and loca­tions by intel­li­gent­ly exchang­ing real-time data with all the nec­es­sary ser­vices to facil­i­tate ver­ti­port oper­a­tions. 

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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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