Australia: “Wilbur Air to Add FlyNow eCopter to Fleet”

Aus­tralian-based Sky­portz, a ver­ti­port and elec­tric air taxi infra­struc­ture com­pa­ny, who recent­ly announced the estab­lish­ment of Wilbur Air – a whol­ly owned sub­sidiary to oper­ate elec­tric and hybrid air­craft from its net­work of ver­ti­ports — is now adding Fly­Now to its fleet, reports a press release.

Fly­Now is a pio­neer­ing avi­a­tion com­pa­ny, pro­duc­ing a futur­is­tic look­ing eCopter, “set­ting a new bench­mark in eco-friend­ly, cost-effec­tive and effi­cient urban trans­port,” says the release. This new part­ner­ship aims to deliv­er up to one hun­dred of these unique craft to the Aus­tralian mar­ket. 

Clem New­ton-Brown, CEO of Sky­portz, com­ment­ed, “We are excit­ed with the poten­tial of the Fly­Now eCopter. It will be used, ini­tial­ly, for auto­mat­ic freight ser­vices, fly­ing busi­ness to busi­ness.”

He con­tin­ued, “Many of our Sky­portz ver­ti­port part­ners are indus­tri­al prop­er­ty own­ers, look­ing for heavy lift­ing drone freight solu­tions. Estab­lish­ing a busi­ness-to-busi­ness ser­vice will enable us to prove the con­cept and oper­a­tional safe­ty in part­ner­ship with Fly­Now, before we move to pas­sen­ger appli­ca­tions.”

Jur­gen Greil, CEO of Fly­Now, added, “We’re thrilled to announce a ground­break­ing col­lab­o­ra­tion that will take urban trans­porta­tion to new heights in Aus­tralia, inte­grat­ing cut­ting-edge eCopters into an exten­sive 3D-mobil­i­ty net­work.” 

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Sky­portz has been assem­bling the pieces of an Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty puz­zle in Aus­tralia over the last 5 years. “Its focus is on break­ing the nexus between avi­a­tion and air­ports,” explains the release “and enabling prop­er­ty own­ers to acti­vate their sites with ver­ti­ports.”

Wilbur Air’s first air­craft col­lab­o­ra­tion announce­ment was with Electra.Aero. Fly­Now is the sec­ond. The subsidiary’s aim is to have a range of air­craft part­ners to car­ry out every­thing from heavy lift­ing drone deliv­er­ies to short and long range pas­sen­ger trav­el. 

Each air­craft will have pri­or­i­ty access to the Sky­portz ver­ti­port loca­tions to be devel­oped around Aus­tralia.

For more infor­ma­tion

https://skyportz.com/wilbur-air/

www.skyportz.com

(Top image: Fly­Now eCopter)

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