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Airbus Signs MOU with Avincis “to Explore Opportunities for AAM”

Air­bus announced last week the sign­ing of a Mem­o­ran­dum of Under­stand­ing (MOU) with Avin­cis, an estab­lished Euro­pean heli­copter oper­a­tive and Aer­i­al Emer­gency Ser­vices oper­a­tor, to col­lab­o­rate on the explo­ration and devel­op­ment of Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty (AAM), reports a press release.

The com­pa­nies will part­ner explor­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties for oper­at­ing eVTOL air­craft through­out Europe. This agree­ment is anoth­er step towards the cre­ation of an AAM ecosys­tem and an expan­sion of Air­bus’ long stand­ing rela­tion­ship with Avin­cis.

The Avin­cis glob­al fleet cur­rent­ly includes close to 60 Air­bus air­craft, which are flown across Europe, Africa and South Amer­i­ca. This longterm col­lab­o­ra­tion will form the foun­da­tion of this new agree­ment.

Balk­iz Sar­i­han, Head of Urban Air Mobil­i­ty at Air­bus, com­ment­ed, “Avin­cis’ estab­lished oper­a­tional net­work, which is essen­tial to enabling key mis­sions such as emer­gency med­ical ser­vices, search and res­cue and fire-fight­ing, will be a valu­able tool to col­lec­tive­ly explore the mis­sion poten­tial of CityAir­bus NextGen.”

Balk­iz Sar­i­han at the Paris Air­show (2023)

John Boag, CEO of Avin­cis, added, “eVTOLs will play an impor­tant role in our long-term fleet strat­e­gy and Air­bus is at the cut­ting-edge of this evo­lu­tion. We are excit­ed to be work­ing with their team in under­stand­ing how we can har­ness the lat­est tech­nol­o­gy to bring more sus­tain­able solu­tions to emer­gency ser­vices glob­al­ly.”

Mean­while, Air­bus remains com­mit­ted to expand­ing its net­work of glob­al part­ner­ships. The all-elec­tric CityAir­bus NextGen pro­to­type was pre­sent­ed to the pub­lic in March, fol­low­ing the vehicle’s final assem­bly and pow­er-on in Decem­ber. The vehi­cle is now under­go­ing test­ing at the company’s AAM test cen­tre in Donauwörth, Ger­many pri­or to its ini­tial flight lat­er this year.

Back­ground

Avin­cis pro­vides crit­i­cal avi­a­tion ser­vices to the civ­il sec­tor to save lives, safe­guard com­mu­ni­ties and pro­tect the envi­ron­ment. With a fleet of more than 220 air­craft, the com­pa­ny has a team of more than 2,400 staff includ­ing expe­ri­enced pilots, crews and tech­ni­cians. Avin­cis has bases in Spain, Por­tu­gal, Italy, Nor­way, Swe­den and Fin­land, as well as oper­a­tions in Mozam­bique and Chile.

For more infor­ma­tion

https://www.airbus.com/en/innovation/low-carbon-aviation/urban-air-mobility/cityairbus-nextgen

https://www.avincis.com/

(Top image: Air­bus)

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