Eve Air Mobility to utilise Beacon’s platform and bring eVTOL aircraft maintenance services to its growing ecosystem

Bea­con — EmbraerX’s main­te­nance and coor­di­na­tion plat­form — is set to be includ­ed in Eve Air Mobil­i­ty’s port­fo­lio of ser­vices and sup­port solu­tions for the eVTOL mar­ket, which uses tech­nol­o­gy to enable bet­ter col­lab­o­ra­tion and increase the uptime on air­craft.

Bea­con was incu­bat­ed by EmbraerX at the same time as Eve, and will help to con­nect and syn­chro­nise indus­try resources, the after­mar­ket sup­ply chain and avi­a­tion pro­fes­sion­als in a more agile and effi­cient way to keep air­craft fly­ing.

Eve is work­ing on its own eVTOL air­craft, which has yet to be revealed, but has announced sev­er­al key part­ner­ships across the world as it works towards com­mer­cial launch. These include Halo Avi­a­tion in the USA and UK, Helisul Avi­a­tion in Brazil, Ascent in Sin­ga­pore and more recent­ly, Sky­ports.

Fran­cis­co Gomes Neto, pres­i­dent and CEO of Embraer, said: “This ini­tia­tive high­lights an impor­tant pil­lar of our strate­gic plan as it rein­forces the rel­e­vance of inno­va­tion and diver­si­fi­ca­tion for the company’s sus­tain­able growth. Eve and Bea­con are bring­ing new capa­bil­i­ties to the mar­ket, cre­at­ing dis­rup­tive solu­tions for urban air mobil­i­ty. Ini­tia­tives like this dri­ve the future of our busi­ness.”

Bea­con brings togeth­er dif­fer­ent stake­hold­ers work­ing on unsched­uled inter­rup­tions to fos­ter real-time col­lab­o­ra­tion, and accel­er­at­ing the return to ser­vice of air­craft. By lever­ag­ing the start­up mind­set and Embraer’s expe­ri­ence, Bea­con opens a new dig­i­tal era in avi­a­tion ser­vices.

It recent­ly announced agree­ments with ABS Jets and The Mobile Repair Team (MRT), has been cre­at­ing a posi­tion for itself in the dig­i­tal and agnos­tic avi­a­tion ser­vices indus­try.

By the end of April 2021, Bea­con had con­clud­ed over 35,000 unsched­uled cas­es by more than 1,000 users. These num­bers are expect­ed to grow as the avi­a­tion indus­try recov­ers from the COVID-19 cri­sis.

Mar­co Aure­lio Cesari­no, Head of Bea­con, added: “We are excit­ed about the part­ner­ship with Eve. Urban air mobil­i­ty demands noth­ing less than 21st cen­tu­ry opti­mised solu­tions to keep air­craft fly­ing and ful­fill cities’ evolv­ing mobil­i­ty needs. By join­ing Bea­con, Eve will boost its ser­vices net­work poten­tial and ensure agili­ty to solve inter­rup­tions for eVTOLs.”

In addi­tion to the air­craft pro­grame, Eve is har­ness­ing the exper­tise of both Embraer and Ate­ch, a sub­sidiary of the Embraer Group, in pro­vid­ing glob­al­ly-recog­nised air traf­fic man­age­ment soft­ware to cre­ate the solu­tions that will help safe­ly scale the UAM indus­try going for­ward.