Greenbird AAM collaboration platform welcomes Perth-based tourism aircraft operator Swan River Seaplanes

Swan Riv­er Sea­planes has joined Green­bird to secure a lead­ing part in devel­op­ing Australia’s advanced air mobil­i­ty (AAM) indus­try with chang­ing avi­a­tion tech­nol­o­gy, cus­tomer inter­est in cli­mate change, and the decar­bon­i­sa­tion of air trans­port.

Swan Riv­er Sea­planes is a lux­u­ry tour and trans­port oper­a­tor based in Perth, West­ern Aus­tralia with a focus on show­cas­ing icon­ic tourism in and around the state of West­ern Aus­tralia.

With the addi­tion of Swan Riv­er Sea­planes, Green­bird now has 14 ecosys­tem part­ners, includ­ing Avis­tra, Avi­a­tion Projects, Sky­ports (UK), Archer­field Air­port Cor­po­ra­tion, Grif­fith Uni­ver­si­ty, AMSL Aero, Nau­tilus Avi­a­tion, Avi­a­tor Group, h2 ener­gy com­pa­ny, Electro.Aero, AvLogix Solu­tions, Fly­Freely, and Sig­ma Aero­space.

Green­bird man­ag­ing direc­tor Sara Hales said: “We wel­come Swan Riv­er Sea­planes to the col­lab­o­ra­tion plat­form and are pleased to have anoth­er air­craft oper­a­tor involved.

“Being an exten­sion of avi­a­tion, the advanced air mobil­i­ty indus­try and its asso­ci­at­ed estab­lish­ment will be led by exist­ing air­craft oper­a­tors, and AAM pro­vides for much-need­ed pro­gres­sion towards the decar­bon­i­sa­tion of flight.

“This is a key dri­ver for eco-tourism prod­ucts such as Swan Riv­er Sea­planes, and rel­a­tive­ly sim­ple sce­nar­ios like tourism flights present a valu­able oppor­tu­ni­ty to demon­strate the safe­ty and val­ue of these emerg­ing avi­a­tion tech­nolo­gies.”

Swan Riv­er Sea­planes direc­tor Dean Kin­gi added: “We see AAM as a cru­cial step in the future devel­op­ment of avi­a­tion in Aus­tralia and join­ing Green­bird not only show­cas­es our sup­port for the indus­try, but it also pro­vides us with sup­port need­ed from fel­low avi­a­tion pro­fes­sion­als.

“We want to be a part of the con­ver­sa­tions lead­ing up to the estab­lish­ment and devel­op­ment of AAM in Aus­tralia, and Green­bird is how we will achieve that.”

Green­bird is led by trust­ed air­port and avi­a­tion indus­try advi­sors Avis­tra, and ded­i­cat­ed to facil­i­tat­ing the entry and growth of AAM in Aus­tralia.

Back in March, Green­bird announced AMSL Aero as a found­ing ecosys­tem part­ner, Australia’s lead­ing eVTOL air­craft devel­op­er of the Ver­ti­ia air­craft, which is pow­ered by elec­tric bat­tery and hydro­gen to pro­vide the fastest door-to-door pas­sen­ger trans­port for dis­tances up to 1000 km.

Before that in Jan­u­ary, Sky­portz announced a part­ner­ship with Secure Park­ing to deliv­er up to 400 land­ing sites for eVTOL air­craft in Aus­tralia.