U.S Bravo Air signs LOI with SkyDrive to Purchase up to 5 eVTOLS

U.S‑based Bra­vo Air, an estab­lished pri­vate air char­ter ser­vice oper­a­tor from Augus­ta, Geor­gia, has signed a Let­ter of Intent (LOI) for the pur­chase of up to five Sky­Drive SD-05 eVTOL air­craft, reports a press release.

The agree­ment also includes a col­lab­o­ra­tion “to con­duct joint stud­ies in the devel­op­ment of use cas­es orig­i­nat­ing from Augus­ta Region­al Air­port to scale Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty (AAM) with­in the region includ­ing the adap­tion of the com­pa­ny’s busi­ness mod­el for air taxi ser­vices,” says the release.

The part­ner­ship builds on an exist­ing Sky­Drive rela­tion­ship with key stake­hold­ers in South Car­oli­na to make Air Taxi Ser­vices avail­able to poten­tial cus­tomers with­in the region. 

This lat­est col­lab­o­ra­tion aims to estab­lish “a thriv­ing eVTOL air taxi net­work that con­nects Augus­ta Region­al Air­port to var­i­ous des­ti­na­tions across the region, pro­vid­ing a seam­less last-mile mobil­i­ty expe­ri­ence for com­muters and trav­ellers alike,” con­tin­ues the release. 

Augus­ta Region­al Air­port

Japan-based Sky­Drive is com­mit­ted to col­lab­o­rat­ing close­ly with Bra­vo Air and the State of Geor­gia “to cul­ti­vate a robust oper­a­tional AAM infra­struc­ture that ben­e­fits region­al air­ports and oper­a­tors with the goal of cre­at­ing a con­nect­ed, envi­ron­men­tal­ly friend­ly Air Taxi net­work that serves the needs of local com­mu­ni­ties while pro­mot­ing eco­nom­ic growth and oppor­tu­ni­ty.”

Dann Stan­dard, VP Oper­a­tions of Bra­vo Air com­ment­ed,  “We were hon­oured to have recent­ly vis­it­ed Sky­Drive in Japan and had the oppor­tu­ni­ty to meet the teams bring­ing AAM devel­op­ment into a real­i­ty. We are excit­ed to be a part of a col­lab­o­ra­tive effort to bring more envi­ron­men­tal­ly con­scious air trav­el options to the Augus­ta area and beyond.”

Her­bert Judon, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of Augus­ta Region­al Air­port, remarked, “The Air­port staff have worked dili­gent­ly to pre­pare the infra­struc­ture nec­es­sary to sup­port the needs of this new indus­try. We are pleased to see this nascent indus­try start to grow and expand in our mar­ket.”

Augus­ta May­or Gar­nett John­son, added, “We see our vision for a green­er future com­ing to fruition with com­pa­nies start­ing to adopt these new elec­tric air­craft and embrac­ing the eco-friend­ly tech­nolo­gies.”

May­or Gar­nett John­son

SkyDrive’s aim is to con­tin­ue work­ing along­side key stake­hold­ers in both Geor­gia and South Car­oli­na to make the Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty (AAM) vision a real­i­ty and has invit­ed all Part 135 Oper­a­tors and relat­ed stake­hold­ers inter­est­ed to join the com­pa­ny on its jour­ney.

Tomo­hi­ro Fukuza­wa, Founder and CEO of Sky­Drive said, “This col­lab­o­ra­tion with Bra­vo Air marks a sig­nif­i­cant step for­ward in our shared objec­tive of advanc­ing AAM devel­op­ment, par­tic­u­lar­ly in the South­east region in the U.S.”

For more infor­ma­tion

https://en.skydrive2020.com/

https://www.mybravoair.com/

(Top image: Sky­Drive SD-05)

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