Five-Alpha to bring infrastructure design expertise to Varon Vehicles’ urban air mobility ecosystem in Latin America

Five-Alpha — the glob­al con­sul­tan­cy spe­cial­is­ing in ver­ti­cal flight infra­struc­ture design — has become the lat­est com­pa­ny to part­ner with Varon Vehi­cles and sup­port the devel­op­ment of its Infra­struc­ture Net­works in Latin Amer­i­ca.

Varon Vehi­cles is cur­rent­ly devel­op­ing its oper­a­tions and plans to begin trans­porta­tion ser­vices in Colom­bia. Five-Alpha, which also has exper­tise in avi­a­tion safe­ty, edu­ca­tion, and stan­dards devel­op­ment, will sup­port the ver­ti­port infra­struc­ture design and oper­a­tions.

It joins a host of oth­er com­pa­nies in its ecosys­tem, which includes eVTOL air­craft OEM Jaunt Air Mobil­i­ty, TruWeath­er Solu­tions, Pal­adin AI, PS&S, Flight Crowd and Airio.

Felipe Varon, CEO And Founder of Varon Vehi­cles, said: “We’re lever­ag­ing on the lega­cy of avi­a­tion as we pro­duce this new form of air trans­porta­tion which will be elec­tric and for urban use.

“The exper­tise of Five-Alpha is tremen­dous added val­ue for the design of our infra­struc­ture and oper­a­tions, and we’re real­ly look­ing for­ward to this active col­lab­o­ra­tion as we ideate what needs to be com­plete­ly new, but also as we inte­grate the sol­id and well proven foun­da­tions of safe and reli­able avi­a­tion.”

Five-Alpha was found­ed on the dili­gence and tire­less efforts of the firm’s prin­ci­ple, Rex Alexan­der, whose expe­ri­ence spans four decades in mil­i­tary, com­mer­cial and gen­er­al avi­a­tion. The com­pa­ny has since grown to become one of the glob­al lead­ers in infra­struc­ture devel­op­ment and safe­ty for the heli­copter and advanced air mobil­i­ty indus­tries.

Its exten­sive col­lab­o­ra­tive engage­ment with numer­ous gov­ern­ment, reg­u­la­to­ry, and indus­try bod­ies for the pur­pos­es of advanc­ing low alti­tude infra­struc­ture include advis­ing and work­ing with organ­i­sa­tions which include the Ver­ti­cal Flight Soci­ety, Fed­er­al Avi­a­tion Admin­is­tra­tion, NASA, the U.S. D.O.T. Trans­porta­tion Safe­ty Insti­tute, Nation­al Fire Pro­tec­tion Asso­ci­a­tion, Heli­copter Asso­ci­a­tion Inter­na­tion­al and the U.S. Heli­copter Safe­ty Team. 

Varon added: “Giv­en this for­mi­da­ble lev­el of engage­ment in so many diverse areas, Five-Alpha brings an under­stand­ing, exper­tise and expe­ri­ence lev­el to this part­ner­ship, that is unpar­al­leled in the indus­try.”

Alexan­der con­clud­ed: “I am very excit­ed to be part­ner­ing with the Varon Vehi­cles Cor­po­ra­tion and their team. Their method­ol­o­gy and con­cept of oper­a­tions for Urban Air Mobil­i­ty shows great promise.  I am very much look­ing for­ward to see­ing what we can accom­plish in this space togeth­er.”

You can read more about Varon Vehi­cles’ vision for Latin Amer­i­ca and its Infra­struc­ture Net­works by click­ing here, where Varon spoke to eVTOL Insights as part of a in-depth inter­view ear­li­er this year.