GAMA welcomes Archer, MD Helicopters, Overair, Volocopter and Odys Aviation as new Members

The Gen­er­al Avi­a­tion Man­u­fac­tur­ers Asso­ci­a­tion (GAMA) has added MD Heli­copters as a Mem­ber; Archer, Overair and Volo­copter as Asso­ciate Mem­bers, and Odys Avi­a­tion as an Asso­ciate Mem­ber elec­tric propul­sion inno­va­tion com­pa­nies (EPIC).

MD Heli­copters is head­quar­tered in Mesa, Ari­zona, and was found­ed in 1947, man­u­fac­tur­ing high-per­for­mance rotor­craft air­craft that sup­port mil­i­tary, com­mer­cial, law enforce­ment, util­i­ty and VIP mis­sion pro­files, with a his­to­ry of design­ing and build­ing air­craft known for their safe­ty, ver­sa­til­i­ty, respon­sive­ness, speed and reli­a­bil­i­ty.

Archer is design­ing and devel­op­ing elec­tric ver­ti­cal take­off and land­ing air­craft for use in urban air mobil­i­ty (UAM) net­works, with a mis­sion to free every­one to reimag­ine how they move. Based in San­ta Clara, Cal­i­for­nia, Archer joined GAMA in 2021 as an Asso­ciate Mem­ber EPIC and has ele­vat­ed its mem­ber­ship to Asso­ciate Mem­ber.

Overair is an advanced air mobil­i­ty com­pa­ny head­quar­tered in San­ta Ana, Cal­i­for­nia, that was found­ed in 2020 as spin­off of Karem Air­craft, and is devel­op­ing its But­ter­fly eVTOL air­craft using decades of pro­pri­etary VTOL tech­nol­o­gy devel­oped for mil­i­tary use.

These inno­va­tions give But­ter­fly crit­i­cal pow­er reserves using today’s com­mer­cial­ly avail­able bat­tery cells, which trans­late into advances in safe­ty and a supe­ri­or expe­ri­ence for rid­ers and com­mu­ni­ties. As Karem Air­craft, Overair joined GAMA in 2018 as an Asso­ciate Mem­ber EPIC and has ele­vat­ed its mem­ber­ship to Asso­ciate Mem­ber.

Volo­copter was found­ed in 2011 and is head­quar­tered in Bruch­sal, Ger­many. Its VoloC­i­ty and VoloRe­gion eVTOL air­craft offer pas­sen­ger ser­vices, while Volo­Drone offers swift, secure, and emis­sion-free goods con­nec­tions to des­ti­na­tions, sup­port­ed by VoloIQ soft­ware as its dig­i­tal back­bone for safe and effi­cient oper­a­tions. Volo­copter joined GAMA in 2018 as Asso­ciate Mem­ber EPIC and has ele­vat­ed its mem­ber­ship to Asso­ciate Mem­ber.

Odys Avi­a­tion was estab­lished in 2019 and is head­quar­tered in Long Beach, Cal­i­for­nia. It is ded­i­cat­ed to build­ing the future of region­al air trav­el, by devel­op­ing and build­ing VTOL air­craft for the world’s busiest trav­el cor­ri­dors. Using hybrid-elec­tric tech­nol­o­gy, it is forg­ing the next step in com­mer­cial avi­a­tion, cut­ting trav­el times in half while reduc­ing the indus­try’s car­bon foot­print.

In March, The US Sen­ate passed the Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty Coor­di­na­tion and Lead­er­ship Act, which estab­lish­es an inter-agency work­ing group to more effec­tive­ly engage the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment in fur­ther­ing the Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty (AAM) sec­tor.

NBAA and GAMA applauds US Sen­ate in pass­ing Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty Coor­di­na­tion and Lead­er­ship Act