“Skyportz Welcomes Release of Australia’s Air Taxi Roadmap”

Sky­portz, an Aus­tralian lead­ing ver­ti­port devel­op­er, wel­comes the release this week of a reg­u­la­to­ry roadmap update for Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty (AAM) in Aus­tralia by safe­ty reg­u­la­tor, CASA.

The Remote­ly Pilot­ed Air­craft Sys­tems (RPAS) and Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty (AAM) Strate­gic Reg­u­la­to­ry Roadmap is part of the Emerg­ing Tech­nolo­gies Pro­gram in Aus­tralia.

The release explains, “This pro­gram focus­es on safe­ly and effi­cient­ly inte­grat­ing emerg­ing avi­a­tion tech­nolo­gies and sys­tems into Aus­trali­a’s air­space and civ­il reg­u­la­to­ry frame­work. The Roadmap explains the plan for reg­u­lat­ing RPAS and AAM over the next 10 to 15 years.”

And con­tin­ues, “It sets out Australia’s strat­e­gy and plan­ning to safe­ly inte­grate these tech­nolo­gies into Australia’s air­space and future reg­u­la­to­ry sys­tem, along­side tra­di­tion­al avi­a­tion.”

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https://www.casa.gov.au/resources-and-education/publications-and-resources/corporate-publications/rpas-and-aam-strategic-regulatory-roadmap#Download

Clem New­ton-Brown, CEO of Sky­portz, enthused, “This is real­ly excit­ing news for Aus­tralia. This pol­i­cy con­fir­ma­tion by CASA pro­vides a green light for the prop­er­ty devel­op­ment indus­try to start plan­ning for this rev­o­lu­tion in the way we move peo­ple and goods.”

He con­tin­ued, “The ver­ti­port infra­struc­ture is the miss­ing piece of the puz­zle for this indus­try. With­out new ver­ti­port land­ing sites in places peo­ple want to go, the air­craft will nev­er ful­fil their poten­tial”.

Pro­posed Sky­portz Ver­ti­port (cred­it: Sky­portz)

Sky­portz aims to break the nexus between avi­a­tion and air­ports and enable com­mer­cial and indus­tri­al prop­er­ty devel­op­ers to host ver­ti­ports. Over 400 prop­er­ty sites have expressed an inter­est in host­ing a ver­ti­port in Aus­tralia.

New­ton-Brown added, “We envis­age that those prop­er­ties with ver­ti­ports will attract high­er rents as busi­ness­es demand to have drone freight and air taxi ser­vices for cus­tomers. How­ev­er, this is an emerg­ing new indus­try, so we need the sup­port of Gov­ern­ment and our safe­ty reg­u­la­tor CASA to help guide devel­op­ment.”

Sky­portz has estab­lished a ful­ly owned sub­sidiary, Wilbur Air, which will even­tu­al­ly oper­ate a range of new air­craft from its ver­ti­port net­work. The com­pa­ny is also devel­op­ing a ver­ti­pad patent that man­ages air tur­bu­lence to improve safe­ty and reduce prop­er­ty foot­print require­ments.

For more infor­ma­tion

www.skyportz.com

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