Kitty Hawk and Jump Aero in latest group of companies to become GAMA members

The Gen­er­al Avi­a­tion Man­u­fac­tur­ers Asso­ci­a­tion (GAMA) has wel­comed five new mem­ber­ships, which include eVTOL air­craft devel­op­er Kit­ty Hawk and Jump Aero, the Cal­i­for­nia-based start­up build­ing an eVTOL air­craft for emer­gency first respon­ders.

Kit­ty Hawk has joined as an Asso­ciate Mem­ber Full, along­side Gen­e­sis Air Mobil­i­ty — a brand of Hyundai — Joby Avi­a­tion, Lil­i­um and Wisk as oth­er eVTOL air­craft man­u­fac­tur­ers. Jump Aero has joined as Asso­ciate Mem­bers EPIC, with com­pa­nies includ­ing Alaka’i Tech­nolo­gies, Aut­oflightX, VerdeGo Aero and Volo­copter.

Also join­ing GAMA include Avi­a­tion Safe­ty Resources as a mem­ber. The com­pa­ny designs, tests and pro­duces whole emer­gency recov­ery para­chutes for exper­i­men­tal and gen­er­al avi­a­tion air­craft — as well as the advanced air mobil­i­ty and unmanned aer­i­al sys­tems (UAS) mar­kets.

It has also been select­ed by Bye Aero­space to sup­ply whole air­craft recov­ery para­chutes sys­tems for its eFlyer2 air­craft.

Also join­ing as a mem­ber is Whe­len Aero­space Tech­nolo­gies, which designs, engi­neers and man­u­fac­tures light­ing prod­ucts for the aero­space indus­try, includ­ing land­ing, taxi, anti-col­li­sion and posi­tion lights for gen­er­al avi­a­tion air­craft.

Like Jump Aero, Aura Net­work Sys­tems has joined as an Asso­ciate Mem­ber EPIC and pro­vides air-to-ground wire­less com­mu­ni­ca­tions net­works which enables voice, data and nav­i­ga­tion capa­bil­i­ties for the avi­a­tion com­mu­ni­ty.

GAMA is an inter­na­tion­al trade asso­ci­a­tion rep­re­sent­ing more than 100 of the world’s lead­ing man­u­fac­tur­ers of gen­er­al avi­a­tion air­planes and rotor­craft, engines, avion­ics, com­po­nents and relat­ed ser­vices. Notable mem­bers include Air­bus Heli­copters, Bell, Boe­ing, GE Avi­a­tion and Rolls-Royce.

For more infor­ma­tion about its mem­ber­ship pack­ages, vis­it https://gama.aero/about-gama/membership/