Australia: Skyportz Welcomes CASA Vertiport Draft Guidelines for eVTOLs

Australia’s Civ­il Avi­a­tion Safe­ty Author­i­ty (CASA) has released, this week, draft guide­lines for ver­ti­port con­struc­tion to ser­vice eVTOL infra­struc­ture, reports a press release. This draft pro­vides guid­ance “for site selec­tion, phys­i­cal char­ac­ter­is­tics and visu­al aids.”

Guide­lines

https://consultation.casa.gov.au/regulatory-program/draft-ac-139-v-01-v1‑0/

Sky­portz is “the only ver­ti­port infra­struc­ture com­pa­ny in Aus­tralia” and has been work­ing for 4 years “to encour­age the devel­op­ment of Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty (AAM) pol­i­cy at all lev­els of Gov­ern­ment, par­tic­u­lar­ly in the space of essen­tial ver­ti­port infra­struc­ture.”

Clem New­ton-Brown, CEO of Sky­portz, com­ment­ed, “This announce­ment is send­ing a clear mes­sage to the world that Aus­tralia is open for busi­ness and prepar­ing the ver­ti­port ecosys­tem to sup­port Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty.”

Clem New­ton-Brown

Sky­portz has over 400 poten­tial sites owned by prop­er­ty part­ners wish­ing to gain a first- mover advan­tage in this emerg­ing indus­try.

New­ton-Brown con­tin­ued, “The key to this indus­try is break­ing the nexus between avi­a­tion and exist­ing air­ports. We need to devel­op a net­work of new ver­ti­port sites if the indus­try is to reach its poten­tial and Sky­portz is ready­ing the land­scape to part­ner with infra­struc­ture investors.”

Ear­li­er this year Sky­portz released a design for a ver­ti­port at Caribbean Park, Mel­bourne, in a col­lab­o­ra­tion with Con­tr­eras Earl Archi­tec­ture, To70 Avi­a­tion and ARUP. The com­pa­ny also has been look­ing close­ly at Syd­ney and Bris­bane as oth­er poten­tial ear­ly mar­kets for AAM.

New­ton-Brown added, “These new guide­lines will help us fine tune the design and offer our prop­er­ty part­ners the con­fi­dence to invest in ver­ti­port infra­struc­ture, as well as make a deci­sion as to where we can locate our first net­work.”

The CASA draft guide­line comes on the back of a recent Fed­er­al AUS36 mil­lion fund to advance the eVTOL indus­try in Aus­tralia.

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(top pic: Con­tr­eras Ear­ly Archi­tec­ture 2022)