Landmark Deal: Archer Announces “Infrastructure MOU with Signature Aviation”

Archer has announced this week, a land­mark deal with Sig­na­ture Avi­a­tion, the world’s largest net­work of pri­vate avi­a­tion ter­mi­nals, reports a press release.

The com­pa­nies have signed a Mem­o­ran­dum of Under­stand­ing (MOU) focused on elec­tri­fy­ing Signature’s indus­try-lead­ing net­work of over 200 air­port ter­mi­nals, while giv­ing Archer access to take­off and land­ing sites in major met­ro­pol­i­tan areas across the U.S and glob­al­ly. These sites include New York, Los Ange­les, San Fran­cis­co Bay Area and Texas. 

The agree­ment iden­ti­fies day-one oppor­tu­ni­ties for launch­ing Archer’s air taxi ser­vice in key Unit­ed Air­lines hubs at Newark Inter­na­tion­al (EWR) and Chica­go O’Hare (ORD) Air­ports.

The release explains, “The two com­pa­nies plan to lever­age their exist­ing part­ner­ships with BETA Tech­nolo­gies to install BETA’s inter­op­er­a­ble rapid recharg­ing sys­tems across Signature’s indus­try-lead­ing net­work of pri­vate avi­a­tion ter­mi­nals. These sys­tems utilise the Com­bined Charg­ing Sys­tem (CCS), which can charge elec­tric air­craft, cars, air­plane tugs, bus­es and oth­er forms of trans­porta­tion com­mon­ly used at air­ports.” 

It goes on, “The inter­op­er­a­ble rapid recharg­ing sys­tem, recent­ly endorsed by the Gen­er­al Avi­a­tion Man­u­fac­tur­ers Asso­ci­a­tion (GAMA), has been installed at 20+ air­ports across the coun­try with 50 new sites in devel­op­ment and is cur­rent­ly used by the industry’s lead­ing orig­i­nal equip­ment man­u­fac­tur­ers (OEMs).”

(Map show­cas­ing over 130 of Signature’s U.S. assets, high­light­ing ini­tial loca­tions from their part­ner­ship with Archer: EWR, ORD, HOU, VNY and OAK)

Bryan Bern­hard, Archer’s Chief Growth & Infra­struc­ture Offi­cer, com­ment­ed,  “By focus­ing on elec­tri­fy­ing key avi­a­tion assets in major cities such as New York and Chica­go, we are tak­ing essen­tial steps toward mak­ing sus­tain­able and effi­cient air trav­el a real­i­ty. This part­ner­ship will help us estab­lish a robust net­work of land­ing sites across the coun­try to enable the scal­ing of our air taxi ser­vice, ensur­ing our Mid­night air­craft can seam­less­ly inte­grate into urban envi­ron­ments and pro­vide a reli­able trans­porta­tion solu­tion for our pas­sen­gers.”

Derek DeCross, Chief Com­mer­cial Offi­cer at Sig­na­ture Avi­a­tion, added, “We’re com­mit­ted to shap­ing the future of avi­a­tion through sus­tain­abil­i­ty and thrilled to work along­side Archer as we expand our infra­struc­ture to sup­port the elec­tri­fi­ca­tion of the indus­try.”

He con­tin­ued, “This col­lab­o­ra­tion unlocks new pos­si­bil­i­ties in the design and intro­duc­tion of inno­v­a­tive sus­tain­able avi­a­tion solu­tions while also bring­ing our guests greater access to the future of urban air mobil­i­ty via Archer’s Mid­night air­craft.”

The two com­pa­nies plan to elec­tri­fy ini­tial launch loca­tions as ear­ly as 2025, with fur­ther expan­sion planned across Sig­na­ture Aviation’s glob­al net­work as Archer’s air­craft avail­abil­i­ty increas­es, estab­lish­ing a lead­ing elec­tric avi­a­tion infra­struc­ture expe­ri­ence that offers pre­mi­um ser­vices to Signature’s clients.

For more infor­ma­tion

www.archer.com

www.signatureaviation.com

(Top image: Mid­night at a Sig­na­ture Out­let)

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