Overair, Clay Lacy Aviation Collaborate to Introduce AAM to Southern California

Overair, a U.S‑based devel­op­er of the But­ter­fly eVTOL air­craft and Clay Lacy, a pri­vate jet man­age­ment com­pa­ny, fixed-base oper­a­tor (FBO) and infra­struc­ture plan­ner, announced this week a col­lab­o­ra­tion to estab­lish Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty (AAM) oper­a­tions through­out the South­ern Cal­i­for­nia region, reports a press release. 

The com­pa­nies are to devel­op a con­cept of oper­a­tions for Overair’s But­ter­fly eVTOL air­craft, which begins test­ing ear­ly this year fol­low­ing the com­ple­tion of Overair’s first full-scale pro­to­type. The part­ners will also tri­al oth­er advanced air­craft. 

They plan to devel­op elec­tric charg­ing facil­i­ties at Clay Lacy’s FBO loca­tions at John Wayne Air­port in Orange Coun­ty and Van Nuys Air­port, locat­ed in Los Ange­les. The part­ner­ship will also explore the estab­lish­ment of new ver­ti­port facil­i­ties and ser­vices across South­ern Cal­i­for­nia.

Valerie Man­ning, CCO at Overair, com­ment­ed, “Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty is an ide­al addi­tion to South­ern California’s trans­porta­tion net­work, cre­at­ing a new option for fast, safe, and qui­et trans­porta­tion in the region.”

She con­tin­ued, “We are con­fi­dent that this strate­gic col­lab­o­ra­tion will lever­age our respec­tive strengths to cre­ate an AAM net­work that will pos­i­tive­ly impact local res­i­dents and vis­i­tors alike.”

Clay Lacy will focus on the devel­op­ment of charg­ing infra­struc­ture and air­craft oper­a­tion logis­tics, while Overair brings exper­tise in air­craft inte­gra­tion, main­te­nance, cer­ti­fi­ca­tion, user and ver­ti­port soft­ware inte­gra­tion, as well as flight path and pub­lic aware­ness plan­ning. 

Scott Cut­shall, SVP Strat­e­gy and Sus­tain­abil­i­ty at Clay Lacy, remarked, “This col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Overair team brings us one step clos­er to bet­ter serv­ing the res­i­dents and com­mu­ni­ties in South­ern Cal­i­for­nia.”

The part­ner­ship is the lat­est of sev­er­al AAM infra­struc­ture ini­tia­tives announced by Overair in recent times, includ­ing col­lab­o­ra­tions with Indi­a’s Jet­Set­Go, the City of Arling­ton and DFW Inter­na­tion­al Air­port in North Texas, as well as sev­er­al agree­ments with South Kore­an part­ners.

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John Criezis, Head of Mobil­i­ty Oper­a­tions at Overair, added, “As we con­tin­ue to make strides devel­op­ing But­ter­fly, we’re also focused on part­ner­ing with infra­struc­ture lead­ers to ensure that oper­a­tions using this new mode of tran­sit can be scaled quick­ly and effi­cient­ly.”

For more infor­ma­tion

www.Overair.com.

claylacy.com

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