FIA 2026: Urban-Air Port and AirClad announce strategic partnership

Urban-Air Port picks Air­Clad to accel­er­ate the com­mer­cial­i­sa­tion of Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty

Urban-Air Port (UAP), the com­pa­ny behind Air One, the world’s first oper­a­tional pub­lic Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty hub, and Air­Clad, spe­cial­ists in advanced engi­neered build­ing sys­tems, prod­uct engi­neer­ing and advanced man­u­fac­tur­ing, today announced a strate­gic col­lab­o­ra­tion to accel­er­ate the com­mer­cial­i­sa­tion of Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty (AAM).

The col­lab­o­ra­tion com­bines Urban-Air Port’s exper­tise in deploy­able AAM infra­struc­ture sys­tems and oper­a­tional inte­gra­tion with AirClad’s strengths in prod­uct engi­neer­ing and advanced man­u­fac­tur­ing. Togeth­er, the com­pa­nies will devel­op the next gen­er­a­tion of afford­able, prod­uct-led solu­tions designed to enable the rapid deploy­ment of con­nect­ed Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty net­works.

Urban-Air Port and Air­Clad share the belief that com­mer­cial AAM must launch as a network—not evolve into one. Com­mer­cial via­bil­i­ty will be achieved through con­nect­ed net­works that pro­vide suf­fi­cient des­ti­na­tions and flight fre­quen­cy to cre­ate a com­pelling pas­sen­ger expe­ri­ence and a sus­tain­able busi­ness case from day one. Deliv­er­ing those net­works requires afford­able, prod­uct-led solu­tions that can be man­u­fac­tured and deployed rapid­ly at scale.

Nick Cros­bie, CEO at Air­Clad, said: “Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty is approach­ing an impor­tant mile­stone. As the indus­try moves towards com­mer­cial deploy­ment, suc­cess will depend on solu­tions that can be deliv­ered repeat­ed­ly, effi­cient­ly and afford­ably. Urban-Air Port has estab­lished an impor­tant bench­mark through Air One, and we’re excit­ed to com­bine our exper­tise in prod­uct engi­neer­ing and advanced man­u­fac­tur­ing with Urban-Air Port’s deploy­able AAM infra­struc­ture sys­tems and oper­a­tional exper­tise to help enable the next phase of AAM.”

Air­Clad rede­fines archi­tec­ture as a pre­mi­um, scal­able prod­uct. By pro­duc­tis­ing the built envi­ron­ment, we seam­less­ly inte­grate UAP oper­a­tional spec­i­fi­ca­tions and advanced tech­no­log­i­cal infra­struc­ture direct­ly into our man­u­fac­tur­ing core. This stan­dard­ised pro­duc­tion mod­el unlocks pow­er­ful economies of scale, sig­nif­i­cant­ly reduc­ing deploy­ment lead times and cap­i­tal expen­di­ture. Air­Clad designs immer­sive, high-per­for­mance envi­ron­ments that ele­vate the UAP brand vision while ensur­ing fric­tion­less glob­al scal­a­bil­i­ty. Engi­neered for absolute mobil­i­ty; archi­tec­tur­al inno­va­tion, deployed any­where.

The part­ner­ship com­bines two tech­nolo­gies designed around the same prin­ci­ple: AAM infra­struc­ture should be scal­able, man­u­fac­tured & installed, not built. Urban-Air Port’s patent­ed Ver­ti­cal Air­field archi­tec­ture deliv­ers up to a 90% small­er oper­a­tional foot­print than con­ven­tion­al ver­ti­cal take-off infra­struc­ture while sig­nif­i­cant­ly reduc­ing both cap­i­tal and oper­at­ing costs.

Com­bined with AirClad’s exper­tise in mod­u­lar engi­neer­ing, advanced man­u­fac­tur­ing and rapid deploy­ment, the solu­tion enables high-through­put ver­ti­ports to be pro­duced, assem­bled and repli­cat­ed at speed—making com­mer­cial­ly viable AAM net­works achiev­able from day one rather than over decades.

Andrea Wu, CEO at Urban-Air Port, com­ment­ed: “Com­mer­cial AAM must launch as a network—not evolve into one. Com­mer­cial via­bil­i­ty will be achieved through con­nect­ed net­works that pro­vide suf­fi­cient des­ti­na­tions and flight fre­quen­cy to cre­ate a com­pelling pas­sen­ger expe­ri­ence and a sus­tain­able busi­ness case from day one.”

“That’s why we’re part­ner­ing with Air­Clad. Togeth­er, we’re com­bin­ing Urban-Air Port’s exper­tise in deploy­able AAM infra­struc­ture sys­tems and oper­a­tional inte­gra­tion with AirClad’s strengths in prod­uct engi­neer­ing and advanced man­u­fac­tur­ing to help enable the next phase of Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty.”