FIA 2026: Matt Hill of Gotonomi on Operationalizing AAM — Scaling Digital Infrastructure & Comms

At the Farn­bor­ough Inter­na­tion­al Air­show 2026, Jason Pritchard of eVTOL Insights spoke with Matt Hill, Gen­er­al Man­ag­er of Gotono­mi, about scal­ing the advanced air mobil­i­ty (AAM) indus­try.

Hill high­light­ed that as oper­a­tions move from sin­gle flight demon­stra­tions to scal­able fleets, access to data and dig­i­tal air traf­fic man­age­ment becomes essen­tial. Con­ver­sa­tions have shift­ed from ini­tial cap­i­tal expen­di­ture (CapEx) to oper­a­tional expen­di­ture (OpEx), with oper­a­tors pri­or­i­tiz­ing resilient, cost-effec­tive com­mu­ni­ca­tions and strict dol­lar-per-flight opti­miza­tions.

To address con­nec­tiv­i­ty and cyber­se­cu­ri­ty demands, Goton­o­my part­ners with com­pa­nies to ensure built-in encryp­tion and seam­less tran­si­tions between cel­lu­lar and satel­lite net­works.

Look­ing ahead, Hill empha­sized that bridg­ing cur­rent gaps requires local part­ner­ships, inte­grat­ed avion­ics, and cen­tral­ized data man­age­ment to estab­lish a ful­ly con­nect­ed, com­mer­cial­ly viable AAM ecosys­tem.