U.S: 47G Launches “Pioneering Air Transportation System for Utah” 

U.S‑based com­pa­ny, 47G, a glob­al pre­mier ecosys­tem for aero­space, defence and cyber com­pa­nies in Utah, has launched a pio­neer­ing air trans­porta­tion sys­tem, reports a press release.

In part­ner­ship with the Governor’s Office, the Utah Depart­ment of Trans­porta­tion (UDOT), the Utah Inland Port Author­i­ty and indus­try stake­hold­ers, this ini­tia­tive is known as Project Alta (Air Logis­tics Trans­porta­tion Alliance) “with a mis­sion to estab­lish an advanced air mobil­i­ty (AAM) sys­tem for Utah,” explains the release.

At present, var­i­ous Utah-based com­pa­nies play an active role in the AAM mar­ket.

: Zipline, the drone deliv­ery com­pa­ny, is col­lab­o­rat­ing with Inter­moun­tain Health to deliv­er med­i­cines to local homes.

: Hex­cel sup­plies car­bon fibre to Archer Avi­a­tion for the Mid­night Air­craft.

: Elec­tric Pow­er Sys­tems pro­vides bat­ter­ies to var­i­ous elec­tric air­craft com­pa­nies.

: Albany Engi­neered Com­pos­ites devel­ops struc­tur­al com­po­nents for Beta Tech­nolo­gies.

: Inter­galac­tic man­u­fac­tures ther­mal man­age­ment sys­tems for Embraer’s Eve air­craft.

Aaron Starks speak­ing at Hex­cel Cor­po­ra­tion (Cred­it: Lau­ra Seitz, Deseret News)

Aaron Starks, Pres­i­dent and CEO of 47G, remarked, “Project Alta rep­re­sents a col­lab­o­ra­tive, pub­lic-pri­vate part­ner­ship of indus­try and gov­ern­ment stake­hold­ers that seek to put Utah on the map glob­al­ly as an inno­v­a­tive, future-focused state.”

He con­tin­ued, “By lever­ag­ing our entre­pre­neur­ial spir­it and cut­ting-edge tech­nolo­gies, we will attract invest­ment, accel­er­ate the devel­op­ment of crit­i­cal infra­struc­ture, and enable the deploy­ment of air­craft that make our trans­porta­tion sys­tem tru­ly mul­ti­modal.” 

Project Alta will over­see four main phas­es of AAM inte­gra­tion in Utah by 2034 which include expand­ing exist­ing drone pack­age deliv­ery, insti­tut­ing reli­able car­go trans­port and mov­ing peo­ple. 

Paul Dam­ron, UDOT Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty Man­ag­er, com­ment­ed, “In part­ner­ship with 47G, we plan to cre­ate a well-func­tion­ing trans­porta­tion sys­tem in the air that con­nects seam­less­ly with the trans­porta­tion sys­tem on the ground.” Adding, “Imag­ine a world where you can hop on an air taxi and trav­el any­where along the Wasatch Front in 20 min­utes.”

Mean­while, 47G announced recent­ly the hir­ing of for­mer senior rank­ing Fed­er­al Avi­a­tion Admin­is­tra­tion (FAA) offi­cial, Chris Metts, to lead Project Alta. 

Chris Metts

Metts has held numer­ous posi­tions dur­ing his 31 years at the FAA, includ­ing over­see­ing nation­al AAM activ­i­ties nation­al­ly. He has authored AAM research stud­ies for the Nation­al Aero­nau­tics and Space Admin­is­tra­tion (NASA) and brings a wealth of expe­ri­ence to Utah. 

For more infor­ma­tion

https://www.47g.org/

(Top Image: Beta Tech­nolo­gies ALIA Charg­ing)

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