FIA 2026: Jeff Rex of L2 Aviation on why connectivity and autonomy are key to AAM’s Future

L2 Avi­a­tion’s Chief Rev­enue Offi­cer Jeff Rex joins eVTOL Insights at the Farn­bor­ough Inter­na­tion­al Air­show 2026 to dis­cuss the evolv­ing avion­ics, con­nec­tiv­i­ty and inte­gra­tion require­ments of the Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty (AAM) mar­ket.

In this inter­view, Jeff explains how AAM and unmanned air­craft will need to tran­si­tion into a com­mon, safe­ty-crit­i­cal air­space envi­ron­ment, draw­ing on lessons from con­ven­tion­al avi­a­tion and estab­lished satel­lite com­mu­ni­ca­tions sys­tems. He high­lights the grow­ing impor­tance of reli­able con­nec­tiv­i­ty, nav­i­ga­tion and real-time data as air­craft become increas­ing­ly autonomous and dig­i­tal­ly enabled.

Jeff also dis­cuss­es the cer­ti­fi­ca­tion chal­lenges fac­ing next-gen­er­a­tion air­craft, includ­ing the need for reg­u­la­tors to adapt to AAM and unmanned sys­tems glob­al­ly. Look­ing ahead, he iden­ti­fies auton­o­my as one of the tech­nolo­gies like­ly to have the biggest impact on air­craft devel­op­ment over the next five years.

Final­ly, Jeff explains how L2 Avi­a­tion is bring­ing its exper­tise in com­mer­cial, mil­i­tary and gov­ern­ment avi­a­tion into the AAM mar­ket through hard­ware, con­nec­tiv­i­ty and sys­tems inte­gra­tion.