AeroGulf Services to purchase 50 of SkyDrive’s eVTOL aircraft for sightseeing flights at Dubai’s Palm Jumeirah

Sky­Drive and AeroGulf Ser­vices Com­pa­ny, a heli­copter char­ter com­pa­ny based in Dubai, have signed a Let­ter of Intent for the pur­chase of up to 50 of SKY­DRIVE’s eVTOL air­craft.

Through this busi­ness part­ner­ship, both com­pa­nies will work togeth­er to explore poten­tial flight routes and prac­ti­cal use cas­es for com­mer­cial eVTOL air­craft oper­a­tions, with a focus on pro­vid­ing sight­see­ing ser­vices and touris­tic flights at Dubai’s renowned tourist des­ti­na­tion, Palm Jumeirah.

Tomo­hi­ro Fukuza­wa, CEO of Sky­Drive, said: “We have been work­ing on mar­ket expan­sion in the US and Asia so far, and this col­lab­o­ra­tion with AeroGulf Ser­vices marks our first entry into the Mid­dle East­ern mar­ket — a major mile­stone in bring­ing our eVTOL busi­ness vision to life.

“Dubai is at the fore­front of prepar­ing for the oper­a­tion of eVTOL, and it attracts not only res­i­dents but also tourists and busi­ness trav­el­ers from around the world. In col­lab­o­ra­tion with AeroGulf Ser­vices, we aim to intro­duce sight­see­ing flights using our com­pact “SKYDRIVE” eVTOL air­craft, ini­tial­ly around the icon­ic arti­fi­cial island of Palm Jumeirah.

He added: “By offer­ing many peo­ple first-hand expe­ri­ences with our eVTOL, we hope to show­case its val­ue and util­i­ty, bring­ing this ground­break­ing form of trans­porta­tion to a glob­al audi­ence.”

Estab­lished in Dubai in 1976, AeroGulf Ser­vices Com­pa­ny serves as a com­mer­cial heli­copter oper­a­tor and avi­a­tion main­te­nance facil­i­ty. It is the first com­mer­cial heli­copter oper­a­tor in Dubai, ini­tial­ly found­ed with the pur­pose of sup­port­ing Dubai Petroleum’s Oil and Gas oper­a­tions in the Emi­rate of Dubai.

The com­pa­ny aims to explore the future busi­ness oppor­tu­ni­ties in the tourism sec­tor using envi­ron­men­tal­ly friend­ly eVTOL air­craft that are ful­ly elec­tric and emit no CO2 in oper­a­tion.

Fahad Moham­mad Mir Hashem Khoory, CEO of AeroGulf Ser­vices Com­pa­ny LLC, said: “We are thrilled to part­ner with Sky­Drive to bring the future of avi­a­tion to Dubai.

“Our com­mit­ment to sus­tain­abil­i­ty and inno­va­tion is in per­fect har­mo­ny with Dubai’s vision for a green­er future. With eVTOL tech­nol­o­gy, we are tak­ing a bold step towards trans­form­ing urban mobil­i­ty while main­tain­ing our ded­i­ca­tion to safe­ty, effi­cien­cy, and excep­tion­al ser­vice.

“Through this col­lab­o­ra­tion, AeroGulf Ser­vices and Sky­Drive will estab­lish a new bench­mark for eco-friend­ly air trav­el in the region, offer­ing seam­less and sus­tain­able aer­i­al expe­ri­ences for both res­i­dents and vis­i­tors. The deploy­ment of eVTOL air­craft will not only reduce car­bon emis­sions but also enhance con­nec­tiv­i­ty and acces­si­bil­i­ty across Dubai’s key des­ti­na­tions.”

Sky­Drive began test­ing eVTOL pro­to­types in 2014 pri­or to offi­cial incor­po­ra­tion in 2018. In 2019, Sky­Drive became the first com­pa­ny to fly a crewed eVTOL in Japan and as of 2025, the com­pa­ny is work­ing with civ­il avi­a­tion author­i­ties in Japan and the US to acquire cer­ti­fi­ca­tion for “SKYDRIVE”, the company’s lat­est eVTOL prod­uct.

SKYDRIVE will fly at Expo 2025 in Osa­ka, a major inter­na­tion­al event, and began pro­duc­tion of “SKYDRIVE” in March 2024 at a plant owned by Suzu­ki Motor Cor­po­ra­tion, SkyDrive’s offi­cial pro­duc­tion part­ner.