U.S: Wisk Aero, City of Sugar Land Collaborate to Bring Autonomous Air Taxis to Greater Houston Region

Wisk Aero, a lead­ing Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty (AAM) com­pa­ny, and the City of Sug­ar Land, Texas, announced this week, a col­lab­o­ra­tion to bring autonomous AAM to the Greater Hous­ton region, reports a press release. 

Under this new part­ner­ship, Wisk and Sug­ar Land are to “iden­ti­fy and assess a loca­tion at the Sug­ar Land Region­al Air­port for the devel­op­ment of ver­ti­port infra­struc­ture that would allow for Wisk’s autonomous air taxi oper­a­tions,” explains the release. “This ini­tial part­ner­ship will lay the foun­da­tion and act as a gate­way for the estab­lish­ment of a larg­er net­work across the Greater Hous­ton region.” 

Bri­an Yutko, CEO of Wisk, com­ment­ed, “Sug­ar Land’s strate­gic loca­tion with­in the Greater Hous­ton region, and its for­ward-think­ing city lead­er­ship, make it an ide­al part­ner for us and one that is unique­ly posi­tioned as an ear­ly leader in the launch of air taxi ser­vices.”

Michael W. Goodrum, the City Man­ag­er, added, “We are excit­ed to part­ner with Wisk Aero on a new con­cept that just might change the way we trav­el, not only in our city, but across the world. We want to be a city where inno­va­tion is sec­ond nature, where cre­ativ­i­ty is encour­aged and where change is embraced.”

Sug­ar Land Region­al Air­port (Cred­it: SGR)

Wisk and Sug­ar Land will engage in a num­ber of activ­i­ties. These include:-

: Wisk is to pro­vide advice on tech­ni­cal needs for autonomous eVTOL oper­a­tions, includ­ing infra­struc­ture, train­ing, ground oper­a­tional pro­ce­dures, and plans for poten­tial site expan­sion.

: Sug­ar Land will focus on inte­grat­ing AAM into its long-term plans, cham­pi­oning com­mu­ni­ty engage­ment, and estab­lish­ing oper­a­tional pol­i­cy, such as infra­struc­ture per­mit­ting and noise lev­els.

: Togeth­er, the part­ners are to explore incor­po­rat­ing main­te­nance and train­ing facil­i­ties in Sug­ar Land, and engage local and region­al stake­hold­ers to devel­op routes that con­nect the city to the Greater Hous­ton region.

Back­ground

Sug­ar Land Region­al Air­port (SGR) man­ages 75,000 oper­a­tions annu­al­ly. The run­way can han­dle some of the largest cor­po­rate jets like the Glob­al Express and Gulf­stream 650. Ameni­ties include a top qual­i­ty ter­mi­nal, concierge ser­vices from the high­ly-rat­ed FBO, Glob­alS­e­lect, and on-site U.S Cus­toms. The air­port con­tributes USD70 mil­lion to the prop­er­ty tax rolls and is used by more than 100 For­tune 500 com­pa­nies on a reg­u­lar basis.

For more infor­ma­tion

https://wisk.aero/

https://www.sugarlandtx.gov/1073/Airport

(Top image: Wisk Aero)

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